Akashi

Akashi is a city in southern , Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 305,925 in 137,288 households and a population density of 6,200 people per km2. The total area of the city is 49.42 square kilometres.
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  • Type: City with 296,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Akashi city”, “Akashi Hyogo”, “Akashi Hyōgo”, “Akashi Shi”, “Akashi, Hyōgo”, “اکاشی، هیوگو”, “아카시”, and “明石町”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Akashi Castle and Akashi.

Castle
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is an Edo period Japanese castle located…

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located…

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station located…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tarumi-ku.

Suburb
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Tarumi is one of nine wards of , .

Akashi

Latitude
34.6483° or 34° 38′ 54″ north
Longitude
134.9932° or 134° 59′ 36″ east
Population
296,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Established
November 1st, 1919
UN/LOCODE
JP AKA
Open location code
8Q6PJXXV+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 721818502
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1847966
Wiki­data ID
Q26406
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Akashi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكاشي، هيوغو”
  • Arabic: “أكاشي”
  • Asturian: “Akashi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akaşi”
  • Belarusian: “Акасі”
  • Belarusian: “Акашы”
  • Bengali: “আকাশি”
  • Bulgarian: “Акаши”
  • Catalan: “Akashi”
  • Cebuano: “Akashi”
  • Chechen: “Акаси (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Акаси”
  • Chinese: “明石市”
  • Czech: “Akaši”
  • Danish: “Akashi”
  • Dutch: “Akashi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكاشى, هيوجو”
  • Esperanto: “Akaŝi”
  • Estonian: “Akashi”
  • Finnish: “Akashi”
  • French: “Akashi”
  • Galician: “Akashi”
  • German: “Akashi”
  • Greek: “Ακάσι”
  • Gujarati: “અકાશી”
  • Hebrew: “אקאשי”
  • Hindi: “आकाशी”
  • Hungarian: “Akasi”
  • Indonesian: “Akashi, Hyōgo”
  • Indonesian: “Akashi”
  • Irish: “Akashi”
  • Italian: “Akashi”
  • Japanese: “Akashi-shi”
  • Japanese: “あかしし”
  • Japanese: “明石”
  • Japanese: “明石市”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕಾಶಿ”
  • Korean: “아카시 시”
  • Korean: “아카시시”
  • Latvian: “Akaši”
  • Literary Chinese: “明石市”
  • Lithuanian: “Akašis”
  • Malay: “Akashi, Hyōgo”
  • Malay: “Akashi”
  • Marathi: “आकाशी”
  • Mazanderani: “آکاشی، هیوگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akasi-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akashi”
  • Norwegian: “Akashi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Akashi”
  • Persian: “آکاشی، هیوگو”
  • Persian: “آکاشی”
  • Polish: “Akashi”
  • Portuguese: “Akashi”
  • Romanian: “Akashi”
  • Russian: “Акаси”
  • Serbian: “Акаши”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akashi, Hjōgo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akasi”
  • Sinhala: “අකාශි”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آکاشی، هیوقو”
  • Spanish: “Akashi”
  • Swedish: “Akashi”
  • Tagalog: “Akashi, Hyogo”
  • Tagalog: “Akashi”
  • Tagalog: “Akasyi”
  • Tajik: “Акаши”
  • Tamil: “அகாஷி”
  • Tatar: “Акаси”
  • Tatar: “Акачи”
  • Telugu: “అకాషి”
  • Thai: “อะกะชิ”
  • Thai: “อากาชิ”
  • Turkish: “Akashi”
  • Ukrainian: “Акасі”
  • Ukrainian: “Акаші”
  • Urdu: “آکاشی, ہیوگو”
  • Urdu: “آکاشی”
  • Uzbek: “Akasi”
  • Venetian: “Akashi”
  • Vietnamese: “Akashi, Hyōgo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akashi, Hyōgo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akashi”
  • Yue Chinese: “明石”

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