Fukui
Fukui is the capital city of Fukui Prefecture. In 2017, it had a population of 264,000 people. It is home to the Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins, one of the most important cultural heritage sites in Japan.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fukui and Fukui Castle.
Fukui
Latitude
36.0618° or 36° 3′ 42″ north
Longitude
136.2261° or 136° 13′ 34″ east
Population
267,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
FKJ
UN/LOCODE
JP FKJ
Open location code
8Q8R366G+PC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Fukui” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوكوي، فوكوي”
- Arabic: “فوكوي”
- Aragonese: “Fukui”
- Armenian: “Ֆուկուի”
- Asturian: “Fukui”
- Azerbaijani: “Fukui”
- Balinese: “Fukui, Fukui”
- Basque: “Fukui”
- Belarusian: “Фукуі”
- Bengali: “ফুকুই”
- Bengali: “ফুকোই”
- Bulgarian: “Фукуи”
- Catalan: “Fukui”
- Cebuano: “Fukui-shi”
- Chechen: “Фукуи (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Фукуи”
- Chinese: “福井市”
- Czech: “Fukui”
- Danish: “Fukui”
- Dutch: “Fukui”
- Esperanto: “Fukui”
- Estonian: “Fukui”
- Finnish: “Fukui”
- French: “Fukui”
- Galician: “Fukui”
- German: “Fukui”
- Greek: “Φουκούι”
- Gujarati: “ફુકુઇ”
- Hebrew: “פוקואי”
- Hindi: “फुकुई”
- Hungarian: “Fukui”
- Indonesian: “Fukui, Fukui”
- Indonesian: “Fukui”
- Irish: “Fukui”
- Italian: “Fukui”
- Japanese: “Fukui-shi”
- Japanese: “ふくいし”
- Japanese: “福井”
- Japanese: “福井市”
- Kannada: “ಫುಕುಯಿ”
- Korean: “후쿠이시”
- Latvian: “Fukui”
- Literary Chinese: “福井市”
- Lithuanian: “Fukujus”
- Malagasy: “Fukui-shi”
- Malay: “Fukui”
- Marathi: “फुकुई”
- Mazanderani: “فوکوئی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hukui-chhī”
- Moksha: “Фукуй (ошсь)”
- Moksha: “Фукуй”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukui”
- Norwegian: “Fukui”
- Persian: “فوکوئی”
- Polish: “Fukui”
- Portuguese: “Fukui”
- Romanian: “Fukui”
- Russian: “Фукуи”
- Russian: “Фукуй”
- Sardinian: “Fukui”
- Serbian: “Fukuj”
- Serbian: “Фукуј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fukui”
- Silesian: “Fukui”
- Sinhala: “ෆුකුයි”
- Slovenian: “Fukui”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوکوئی”
- Spanish: “Fukui”
- Sundanese: “Fukui, Fukui”
- Sundanese: “Fukui”
- Swahili: “Fukui, Fukui”
- Swahili: “Fukui”
- Swedish: “Fukui”
- Tagalog: “Fukui, Fukui”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Fukui”
- Tajik: “Fukui”
- Tajik: “Фукуи”
- Tamil: “பிருகுஇ”
- Tatar: “Фукуи”
- Telugu: “ఫుకూఇ”
- Thai: “ฟูกูอิ”
- Turkish: “Fukui”
- Ukrainian: “Фукуй”
- Urdu: “فوکوئی، فوکوئی”
- Venetian: “Fukui”
- Vietnamese: “Fukui”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fukui”
- Welsh: “Fukui”
- Wu Chinese: “福井市”
- Yue Chinese: “福井市”
- “Fukui”
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