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Echizen

Echizen is a city located in , Japan. As of 1 July 2018, the city had an estimated population of 83,078 in 20,341 households and a population density of 360 persons per km².
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  • Type: City with 84,900 residents
  • Description: city in Fukui Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Echizen Shi”, “Echizen, Fukui”, and “Etizen”
  • Postal code: 915-8530
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Takefu Station and Kitago.

Railway station
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is a railway station on the Hapi-Line Fukui Line in the city of Echizen, Fukui, Japan, operated by Hapi-Line Fukui.

Railway station
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Station is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line railway station located in the city of Echizen, , .

Railway station
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is a Fukui Railway Fukubu Line railway station located in the city of Echizen, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sabae.

Photo: 流しのインストーラ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city located in , . As of 1 June 2018, the city had an estimated population of 69,338 in 24,167 households and the population density of 820 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 84.59 square kilometres.

Echizen

Latitude
35.9035° or 35° 54′ 12″ north
Longitude
136.1689° or 136° 10′ 8″ east
Population
84,900
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP ECZ
Open location code
8Q7RW539+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1891456062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7467386
Wiki­data ID
Q877941
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Echizen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إتشيزين، فوكوي”
  • Arabic: “إتشيزين”
  • Asturian: “Echizen”
  • Bengali: “একিজেন”
  • Burmese: “အဲချိဇန်းမြို့၊ ဖုခုအိ”
  • Catalan: “Echizen”
  • Cebuano: “Echizen-shi”
  • Chechen: “Этидзен (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Этидзен”
  • Chinese: “Etizen-chhī”
  • Chinese: “越前”
  • Chinese: “越前市”
  • Czech: “Ečizen”
  • Danish: “Echizen”
  • Dutch: “Echizen”
  • Estonian: “Echizen”
  • Finnish: “Echizen”
  • French: “Echizen”
  • Galician: “Echizen”
  • German: “Echizen”
  • Greek: “Ετσιζέν”
  • Gujarati: “ઇચિઝેન”
  • Hindi: “एचीजें”
  • Hungarian: “Ecsizen”
  • Indonesian: “Echizen, Fukui”
  • Indonesian: “Echizen”
  • Irish: “Echizen”
  • Italian: “Echizen”
  • Japanese: “Echizen”
  • Japanese: “えちぜんし”
  • Japanese: “エチゼンシ”
  • Japanese: “越前”
  • Japanese: “越前市”
  • Kannada: “ಎಚಿಜೆನ್”
  • Korean: “에치젠시”
  • Latvian: “Ečidzena”
  • Literary Chinese: “越前市”
  • Lithuanian: “Ečidzenas”
  • Malay: “Echizen, Fukui”
  • Malay: “Echizen”
  • Marathi: “एचईझेन”
  • Mazanderani: “اچیزن، فوکوئی”
  • Mazanderani: “اچیزن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Etizen-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Echizen”
  • Persian: “اچیزن، فوکوئی”
  • Persian: “اچیزن”
  • Polish: “Echizen”
  • Portuguese: “Echizen”
  • Romanian: “Echizen”
  • Russian: “Этидзен”
  • Russian: “Этидзэн”
  • Sinhala: “එචිසෙන්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اچیزن، فوکوئی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اچیزن”
  • Spanish: “Echizen”
  • Swedish: “Echizen”
  • Tagalog: “Echizen, Fukui”
  • Tagalog: “Echizen”
  • Tamil: “ஏச்சிஜென்”
  • Tatar: “Этидзен”
  • Telugu: “ఎషిజెన్”
  • Thai: “เอจิเซ็ง”
  • Turkish: “Echizen”
  • Ukrainian: “Етідзен”
  • Ukrainian: “Ечідзен”
  • Urdu: “ایچیزین، فوکوئی”
  • Uzbek: “Etidzen”
  • Vietnamese: “Echizen, Fukui”
  • Vietnamese: “Echizen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Echizen, Fukui”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Echizen”
  • Yue Chinese: “越前”

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