Amakusa
Amakusa is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2024, the city had an estimated population of 72,243 in 36029 households, and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 683.82 km2.
- Type: City with 75,800 residents
- Description: city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Amakusa, Kumamoto”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amakusa Christian Museum and 本渡郵便局.
Amakusa Christian Museum
Museum
Amakusa Christian Museum opened in Amakusa, Japan, in 1966 and in March 2014 received its four millionth visitor. The museum includes exhibits relating to the Shimabara Rebellion and Kakure kirishitan.
Amakusa
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Amakusa Shi, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.4585° or 32° 27′ 31″ north
Longitude
130.193° or 130° 11′ 35″ east
Population
75,800
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
AXJ
Open location code
8Q4GF55V+C6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Amakusa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أماكوسا، كوماموتو”
- Arabic: “أماكوسا”
- Armenian: “Ամակուսա”
- Asturian: “Amakusa”
- Bengali: “আমাকুসা”
- Catalan: “Amakusa”
- Cebuano: “Amakusa Gun”
- Cebuano: “Amakusa-shi”
- Chechen: “Амакуса (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Амакуса”
- Chinese: “Amakusa-chhī”
- Chinese: “天草”
- Chinese: “天草市”
- Czech: “Amakusa”
- Danish: “Amakusa”
- Dutch: “Amakusa”
- Esperanto: “Amakusa (urbo)”
- Esperanto: “Amakusa”
- Finnish: “Amakusa”
- French: “Amakusa”
- Galician: “Amakusa”
- German: “Amakusa”
- Greek: “Αμακούσα”
- Gujarati: “અમાકુસા”
- Hebrew: “אמקוסה”
- Hindi: “अमाकूसा”
- Hungarian: “Amakusza”
- Indonesian: “Amakusa, Kumamoto”
- Indonesian: “Amakusa”
- Irish: “Amakusa”
- Italian: “Amakusa”
- Japanese: “Amakusa-shi”
- Japanese: “あまくさし”
- Japanese: “あまくさしやくしょ”
- Japanese: “天草”
- Japanese: “天草市”
- Japanese: “天草市役所”
- Kannada: “ಅಮಕುಸಾ”
- Korean: “아마쿠사시”
- Latvian: “Amakusa”
- Literary Chinese: “天草市”
- Lithuanian: “Amakusa”
- Malay: “Amakusa”
- Marathi: “अमाकुसा”
- Mazanderani: “آماکوسا، کوماموتو”
- Mazanderani: “آماکوسا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amakusa-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amakusa”
- Persian: “آماکوسا”
- Persian: “اماکوسا، کوماموتو”
- Polish: “Amakusa”
- Portuguese: “Amakusa”
- Romanian: “Amakusa, kumamoto”
- Romanian: “Amakusa”
- Russian: “Амакуса”
- Scots: “Amakusa”
- Sinhala: “අමකුසා”
- South Azerbaijani: “آماکوسا، کوماموتو”
- South Azerbaijani: “آماکوسا”
- Spanish: “Amakusa”
- Swedish: “Amakusa”
- Tagalog: “Amakusa, Kumamoto”
- Tagalog: “Amakusa”
- Tajik: “Амакуса”
- Tamil: “அமாகுசா”
- Tatar: “Амакуса”
- Telugu: “ఆమకుసా”
- Thai: “อามากูซะ”
- Turkish: “Amakusa”
- Ukrainian: “Амакуса, Кумамото”
- Ukrainian: “Амакуса”
- Urdu: “اماکوسا”
- Vietnamese: “Amakusa, Kumamoto”
- Vietnamese: “Amakusa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amakusa, Kumamoto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amakusa”
- Yue Chinese: “天草”
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