Iwate
Iwate is a town located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 29 February 2020, the town had an estimated population of 13,111, and a population density of 36 persons per km2 in 5455 households. The total area of the town is 360.46 square kilometres.
- Type: Town with 13,700 residents
- Description: town in Iwate district, Iwate prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Iwate Machi”, “Iwate, Iwate”, and “Иватэ”
- Neighbors: Hachimantai and Morioka
Places of Interest
Highlights: Iwate-Numakunai Station and Roadside station Ishigaminooka.
Midō Station
Railway station
Iwate
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Iwate District, Iwate, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.9724° or 39° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
141.2124° or 141° 12′ 45″ east
Population
13,700
Elevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)
Open location code
8RF3X6C6+XX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Iwate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيواته”
- Asturian: “Iwate”
- Burmese: “အိဝတဲမြို့၊ အိဝတဲ”
- Catalan: “Iwate”
- Cebuano: “Iwate-machi”
- Chinese: “岩手町”
- Czech: “Iwate”
- Dutch: “Iwate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايواث”
- French: “Iwate”
- German: “Iwate”
- Greek: “Ιβάτε”
- Hungarian: “Ivate”
- Indonesian: “Iwate, Iwate”
- Indonesian: “Iwate”
- Irish: “Iwate”
- Italian: “Iwate”
- Japanese: “Iwate-machi”
- Japanese: “いわてまち”
- Japanese: “イワテマチ”
- Japanese: “岩手町”
- Korean: “이와테마치”
- Korean: “이와테정”
- Malay: “Iwate, Iwate”
- Malay: “Iwate”
- Persian: “ایواته، ایواته”
- Persian: “ایواته”
- Polish: “Iwate”
- Portuguese: “Iwate”
- Russian: “Ивате”
- Slovak: “Iwate”
- Slovenian: “Ivate”
- Spanish: “Iwate”
- Swedish: “Iwate, Iwate”
- Swedish: “Iwate”
- Tagalog: “Iwate, Iwate”
- Tagalog: “Iwate”
- Thai: “อิวาเตะ”
- Turkish: “Iwate”
- Ukrainian: “Івате”
- Urdu: “ایواتے، ایواتے”
- Vietnamese: “Iwate (thị trấn)”
- Vietnamese: “Iwate”
- Yue Chinese: “岩手町”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Numakunai and Kubo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: 岩手町役場 and 彫刻公園.
Iwate: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Morioka and Hanamaki.
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