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Urasoe

Urasoe is a city located in , . The neighboring municipalities are to the south, Ginowan to the north, and to the east.
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  • Type: City with 116,000 residents
  • Description: city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Urasoe, Okinawa”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shuri Castle and A&W Makiminato.

Castle
Photo: 松岡明芳, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Ryukyuan gusuku castle in the historic district of , the capital of , . Between 1429 and 1879, it was the palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, before becoming largely neglected.

Fast food restaurant
Photo: Mav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
A&W Restaurants, Inc. is an American fast food restaurant chain distinguished by its "Burger Family" combos, draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy W.

Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Urasoe Art Museum opened in 1990 in Urasoe, , Japan. The collection has a particular focus upon Ryukyu lacquerware.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naha and Nishihara.

Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
is the capital of the in and is the main city on . It has a population of around 317,000, which is about a quarter of the total population of the island.

Town
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is a town located in , , . In the Okinawan language, nishi means "north", as was north of the historical Ryukyuan capital of .

Town
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is a town located in , , . As of 2025, the town has an estimated population of 41,585 and a density of 3,865 persons per km2.

Urasoe

Latitude
26.2459° or 26° 14′ 45″ north
Longitude
127.722° or 127° 43′ 19″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP ZAK
Open location code
7QR96PWC+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 568026356
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6822152
Wiki­data ID
Q695895
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Urasoe” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يوراسوي، أوكيناوا”
  • Arabic: “يوراسوي”
  • Asturian: “Urasoe”
  • Bengali: “উরাশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Урасое”
  • Catalan: “Urasoe”
  • Cebuano: “Urasoe Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Urasoe”
  • Central Okinawan: “うらしー”
  • Central Okinawan: “浦添市”
  • Chechen: “Урасоэ”
  • Chinese: “Urasoe-chhī”
  • Chinese: “浦添”
  • Chinese: “浦添市”
  • Czech: “Urasoe”
  • Danish: “Urasoe”
  • Dutch: “Urasoe”
  • Esperanto: “Urasoe”
  • Finnish: “Urasoe”
  • French: “Urasoe”
  • Galician: “Urasoe”
  • German: “Urashi”
  • German: “Urashī”
  • German: “Urasoe”
  • Greek: “Ουρασόε”
  • Gujarati: “ઉરોસો”
  • Hindi: “यूरासे”
  • Hungarian: “Uraszoe”
  • Indonesian: “Urasoe, Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Urasoe”
  • Irish: “Urasoe”
  • Italian: “Urasoe”
  • Japanese: “Urasoe-shi”
  • Japanese: “うらそえし”
  • Japanese: “浦添”
  • Japanese: “浦添市”
  • Japanese: “浦添村”
  • Kannada: “ಉರ್ಸಾಯಿ”
  • Korean: “우라소에”
  • Korean: “우라소에시”
  • Latvian: “Urasoje”
  • Literary Chinese: “浦添市”
  • Lithuanian: “Urasojė”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Urasoe”
  • Malay: “Urasoe”
  • Marathi: “उरोसो”
  • Mazanderani: “اوراسوئه، اوکیناوا”
  • Mazanderani: “اوراسوئه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Urasoe-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Urasoe”
  • Norwegian: “Urasoe”
  • Persian: “اوراسوئه، اوکیناوا”
  • Persian: “اوراسوئه”
  • Polish: “Urasoe”
  • Portuguese: “Urasoe”
  • Romanian: “Urasoe”
  • Russian: “Урасоэ”
  • Serbian: “Urasoe”
  • Serbian: “Урасое”
  • Serbian: “浦添市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Urasoe”
  • Sinhala: “උරසොයි”
  • Slovenian: “Urasoe”
  • Spanish: “Urasoe”
  • Swedish: “Urasoe”
  • Tagalog: “Urasoe, Okinawa”
  • Tagalog: “Urasoe”
  • Tajik: “Urasoe”
  • Tajik: “Урасое”
  • Tamil: “அரசோ”
  • Tatar: “Урасое”
  • Tatar: “Урасоэ”
  • Telugu: “యురాసాయే”
  • Thai: “อูราโซเอะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Urasoe”
  • Turkish: “Urasoe”
  • Ukrainian: “Урасое”
  • Urdu: “وراسوی”
  • Uzbek: “Urasoe”
  • Venetian: “Urasoe”
  • Vietnamese: “Urasoe, Okinawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Urasoe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Urasoe, Okinawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Urasoe”
  • Yue Chinese: “浦添”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Urasoe City Office and 浦添市立中央公民館.

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