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Okuma

Ōkuma is a town located in , . In 2010, the town had a population of 11,515. However, the town was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and residents were permitted return during daylight hours from May 2013.
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  • Type: Town with 11,000 residents
  • Description: town in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Okuma Machi”, “Okuma Town”, “Okuma-machi”, and “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yonomori and Ono.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a railway station in the town of , Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company. is situated 3½ km southeast of Okuma.

Railway stop
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ōno Station is a railway station in the town of Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company. is situated 4 km northeast of Okuma.

Electrical substation
Photo: Σ64, CC BY 4.0.
is an electrical substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tomioka.

Photo: 特急スカイツリートレイン, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town of about 1300 inhabitants in , just off the Japanese east coast. These days its claim to fame, or maybe infamy is the nearby Fukushima nuclear power plant damaged by the massive 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Okuma

Latitude
37.3813° or 37° 22′ 53″ north
Longitude
140.9587° or 140° 57′ 31″ east
Population
11,000
Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)
Open location code
8R929XJ5+GF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 734866067
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2111444
Wiki­data ID
Q385311
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Okuma” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوكوما”
  • Asturian: “Ōkuma”
  • Belarusian: “Акума”
  • Bengali: “ওকুমা, ফুকুশিমা”
  • Bengali: “ওকুমা”
  • Burmese: “အိုးခုမမြို့၊ ဖုခုရှီးမား”
  • Burmese: “အိုးခုမမြို့၊ ဖူကူရှီးမား”
  • Catalan: “Ōkuma”
  • Cebuano: “Ōkuma Machi”
  • Chinese: “大熊町”
  • Czech: “Ókuma”
  • Dutch: “Ōkuma”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوكوما”
  • Estonian: “Okuma”
  • Estonian: “Ōkuma”
  • French: “Okuma”
  • French: “Ōkuma”
  • German: “Okuma”
  • German: “Ōkuma”
  • Greek: “Όκουμα”
  • Hebrew: “אוקומה”
  • Hungarian: “Ókuma”
  • Indonesian: “Ōkuma-machi”
  • Indonesian: “Ōkuma, fukushima”
  • Indonesian: “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Indonesian: “Ōkuma”
  • Indonesian: “大熊町”
  • Irish: “Ōkuma”
  • Italian: “Ōkuma”
  • Japanese: “Ōkuma-machi”
  • Japanese: “おおくままち”
  • Japanese: “オオクママチ”
  • Japanese: “双葉郡大熊町”
  • Japanese: “大熊町”
  • Javanese: “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Javanese: “Ōkuma”
  • Korean: “오쿠마마치”
  • Korean: “오쿠마정”
  • Malay: “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Malay: “Ōkuma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ōkuma”
  • Persian: “اوکوما، فوکوشیما”
  • Persian: “اوکوما”
  • Polish: “Ōkuma”
  • Portuguese: “Ōkuma”
  • Russian: “Окума”
  • Scots: “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Scots: “Ōkuma”
  • Serbian: “Окума (Фукушима)”
  • Serbian: “Окума”
  • Serbian: “大熊町”
  • Slovenian: “Okuma”
  • Spanish: “Okuma, Futaba, Fukushima”
  • Spanish: “Ōkuma”
  • Tagalog: “Okuma, Fukushima”
  • Tagalog: “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Tagalog: “Ōkuma”
  • Thai: “โอกูมะ”
  • Turkish: “Okuma”
  • Turkish: “Ōkuma”
  • Ukrainian: “Окума, Фукусіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Окума”
  • Uzbek: “Ōkuma”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Hùng đinh”
  • Vietnamese: “Ōkuma, Fukushima”
  • Vietnamese: “Ōkuma”
  • Yue Chinese: “大熊町”

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