Fukui
Fukui Prefecture is the southernmost prefecture in the Hokuriku part of the Chubu area of Honshu, Japan. Enjoy Fukui is the prefecture's official multilingual guide site.
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Fukui
- Type: Province with 779,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “Fukui (prefeutura)”, “Fukui (Xapón)”, “Fukui Japon”, “Fukui Japón”, “Fukui Ken”, “Fukui Prefecture”, “Fukui prefektörlüğü”, “Fukui prefektujo”, “Fukui-koān”, “Fukui-kōan”, “Fukui-prefektujo”, “Fukujo prefektūra”, “Hukui Koān”, “Hukui-kōan”, “JP-18”, “Phúc Tỉnh Huyện”, “Prepekturang Fukui”, “Prepekturang Pukui”, “Tỉnh Fukui”, “Префектура Фукуи”, “Префектура Фукуї”, “Фукуї”, “محافظة فوكوئي”, “محافظة فوكوي”, and “후꾸이 현”
- Neighbors: Gifu, Ishikawa, Kyoto, and Shiga
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
35.9264° or 35° 55′ 35″ north
Longitude of center
136.6068° or 136° 36′ 25″ east
Population
779,000
Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Fukui” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Fukui”
- Afrikaans: “Fukui Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Fukui-prefektuur”
- Amharic: “ፉኩይ”
- Arabic: “فوكوي”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura de Fukui”
- Armenian: “Ֆուկուի (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Ֆուկուի”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Fukui”
- Asturian: “Prefeutura de Fukui”
- Azerbaijani: “Fukui prefekturası”
- Azerbaijani: “Fukui”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Fukui”
- Bashkir: “Фукуи (префектура)”
- Bashkir: “Фукуи”
- Basque: “Fukui”
- Belarusian: “Фукуі (прэфектура)”
- Belarusian: “Фукуі”
- Bengali: “ফুকুই প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Фукуи”
- Burmese: “ဖုခုအိခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Fukui”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Fukui”
- Cebuano: “Fukui-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای فوکوی”
- Central Kurdish: “فوکوئی”
- Chechen: “Фукуи (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Фукуи”
- Chinese: “福井县”
- Chinese: “福井縣”
- Croatian: “Fukui”
- Czech: “prefektura Fukui”
- Czech: “Prefektura Fukui”
- Danish: “Fukui-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Fukui”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوكوى”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Fukui”
- Estonian: “Fukui prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Fukuin prefektuuri”
- French: “Fukui”
- French: “préfecture de Fukui”
- French: “Préfecture de Fukui”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Fukui”
- Georgian: “ფუკუის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Fukui”
- German: “Präfektur Fukui”
- Greek: “Φουκούι”
- Gujarati: “ફુકુઇ પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fukui-yen”
- Hausa: “Fukui”
- Hebrew: “פוקואי”
- Hindi: “फुकुई प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Fukui prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Fukui”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Fukui”
- Indonesian: “Fukui”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Fukui”
- Irish: “Maoracht Fukui”
- Italian: “prefettura di Fukui”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Fukui”
- Japanese: “Fukui-ken”
- Japanese: “ふくい”
- Japanese: “フクイ”
- Japanese: “ふくいけん”
- Japanese: “フクイケン”
- Japanese: “福井”
- Japanese: “福井県”
- Javanese: “Prefektur Fukui”
- Javanese: “Préfèktur Fukui”
- Kannada: “ಫುಕುಯಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kazakh: “Fukui”
- Kirghiz: “Fukui”
- Korean: “후꾸이현”
- Korean: “후쿠이 현”
- Korean: “후쿠이현”
- Latin: “Fukuiensis”
- Latvian: “Fukui prefektūra”
- Latvian: “Fukuji prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “福井縣”
- Lithuanian: “Fukujaus prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Фукуи”
- Maithili: “फुकुई प्रशासकीय क्षेत्र”
- Malay: “Wilayah Fukui”
- Manipuri: “ꯐꯨꯀꯨꯢ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “फुकुई प्रांत”
- Marathi: “फुकुई”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Fukui-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hukui-koān”
- Nepali: “फुकुई प्रशासकीय क्षेत्र”
- Nepali: “फुकुई”
- Northern Frisian: “Fukui (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Fukui”
- Northern Sami: “Fukui prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukui prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fukui prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Fukui”
- Oromo: “Fukui”
- Ossetian: “Фукуи (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Фукуи”
- Pampanga: “Fukui Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Fukui”
- Panjabi: “ਫੁਕੁਈ”
- Persian: “استان فوکوئی”
- Persian: “استان فوکویی”
- Polish: “Prefektura Fukui”
- Portuguese: “Fukui”
- Pushto: “فوکوي”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Fukui”
- Russian: “Фукуи”
- Scots: “Fukui Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Fukuj”
- Serbian: “Префектура Фукуј”
- Serbian: “Фукуј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Fukui”
- Sinhala: “ෆුකුයි ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Fukui”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Fukui”
- Somali: “Fukui”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوکوئی اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Fukui”
- Sundanese: “Préféktur Fukui”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Fukui”
- Swedish: “Fukui prefektur”
- Swedish: “Fukui”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Fukui”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Fukui”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Фукуи”
- Tamil: “பிக்குய் ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
- Tatar: “Фукуи (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Фукуи”
- Telugu: “ఫుకూయి ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดฟูกูอิ”
- Turkish: “Fukui”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Фукуй”
- Urdu: “فوکوئی پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Fukui”
- Vietnamese: “Fukui”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fukui”
- Welsh: “Fukui”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع فوکوئی”
- Wu Chinese: “福井县”
- Yue Chinese: “福井縣”
- “ma Pukuwi”
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