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Fukuoka

Fukuoka is the capital of Fukuoka prefecture and the largest city on the island of . Fukuoka is a good starting point for first-time visitors to Japan.
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  • Type: City with 1,610,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Fukuoka City”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hakata Station and Fukuoka International Conference Center.

Railway station
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is a major railway station in , Japan. It is the largest and busiest railway terminal in , and is a gateway to other cities in Kyushu for travelers coming from by rail travel.

Convention center
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Fukuoka Convention Center in , is a collection of three separate buildings operated by the Fukuoka Convention Center Foundation.

Park
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is a Japanese castle located in , Japan. It is also known as Maizuru Castle or Seki Castle. Completed in the early Edo period for tozama daimyō Kuroda Nagamasa, it has been designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1957.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Higashi-ku and Hakata.

Suburb
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is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka in Japan. As of 1 March 2012, it has a population of 296,576, with 136,133 households, and an area of 66.68 km2.

Suburb
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Hakata-ku is a ward of the city of Fukuoka in , Japan. Many of Fukuoka Prefecture and Fukuoka City's principal government, commercial, retail and entertainment establishments are located in the district.

Suburb
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Minami-ku is one of the seven wards of Fukuoka City, . As of 2004, it had a population of 247,913 people and an area of 30.98 km2. As of 2016, the population had increased to 255,000 people with 8,200 per km2.

Fukuoka

Latitude
33.5899° or 33° 35′ 24″ north
Longitude
130.4018° or 130° 24′ 6″ east
Population
1,610,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 1889
IATA airport code
FUK
United Nations Location Code
JP FUK
Open location code
8Q5GHCQ2+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1932338735
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1863967
Wiki­data ID
Q26600
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Fukuoka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fukuoka”
  • Albanian: “Fukuoka”
  • Arabic: “فوكوأوكا”
  • Arabic: “فوكوكا”
  • Aragonese: “Fukuoka”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուկուոկա”
  • Asturian: “Fukuoka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fukuoka”
  • Balinese: “Fukuoka”
  • Basque: “Fukuoka”
  • Belarusian: “Фукуока”
  • Bengali: “ফুকুওকা”
  • Breton: “Fukuoka”
  • Bulgarian: “Фукуока”
  • Burmese: “ဖူကူအိုကာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Fukuoka-shi”
  • Catalan: “Fukuoka”
  • Cebuano: “Fukuoka Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Fukuoka-shi (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)”
  • Central Kurdish: “فوکوئۆکا”
  • Chechen: “Фукуока”
  • Chinese: “Hukuoka-chhī”
  • Chinese: “福冈市”
  • Chinese: “福岡”
  • Chinese: “福岡市”
  • Croatian: “Fukuoka”
  • Czech: “Fukuoka”
  • Danish: “Fukuoka”
  • Dutch: “Fukuoka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فوكوكا”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuoka”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuoko”
  • Esperanto: “Hukuoka”
  • Estonian: “Fukuoka”
  • Faroese: “Fukuoka”
  • Fijian: “Fukuoka”
  • Finnish: “Fukuoka”
  • French: “Fukuoka”
  • Galician: “Fukuoka”
  • Georgian: “ფუკუოკა”
  • German: “Fukuoka-Stadt”
  • German: “Fukuoka”
  • Greek: “Φουκουόκα”
  • Gujarati: “ફુકુઓકા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fukuoka”
  • Hausa: “Fukuoka”
  • Hebrew: “פוקואוקה”
  • Hebrew: “פוקוקה”
  • Hindi: “फुकुओका”
  • Hungarian: “Fukuoka”
  • Ido: “Fukuoka”
  • Indonesian: “Fukuoka”
  • Interlingue: “Fukuoka”
  • Irish: “Fukuoka”
  • Italian: “Fukuoka”
  • Japanese: “Fukuoka-shi”
  • Japanese: “Fukuokashi”
  • Japanese: “ふくおか”
  • Japanese: “フクオカ”
  • Japanese: “ふくおかし”
  • Japanese: “フクオカシ”
  • Japanese: “博多”
  • Japanese: “福博”
  • Japanese: “福岡”
  • Japanese: “福岡区”
  • Japanese: “福岡市”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Fukuoka”
  • Kalaallisut: “Fukuoka”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಕುಕಾಕಾ”
  • Kikuyu: “Fukuoka”
  • Kirghiz: “Фукуока”
  • Korean: “후꾸오까”
  • Korean: “후꾸오까시”
  • Korean: “후쿠오카 시”
  • Korean: “후쿠오카”
  • Korean: “후쿠오카시”
  • Latin: “Beatoclivium”
  • Latin: “Fucuoca”
  • Latin: “Fukuoka”
  • Latvian: “Fukuoka”
  • Literary Chinese: “福岡市”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukuoka”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukuokos miestas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fukuoka”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Fukuoka”
  • Macedonian: “Фукуока”
  • Malagasy: “Fukuoka”
  • Malay: “Fukuoka”
  • Malayalam: “Fukuoka City”
  • Malayalam: “Fukuoka-shi”
  • Malayalam: “Fukuoka”
  • Malayalam: “Hakata”
  • Malayalam: “Hukuoka”
  • Malayalam: “ഫുക്കുഓക്ക”
  • Maltese: “Fukuoka”
  • Maori: “Fukuoka”
  • Marathi: “फुकुओका”
  • Mazanderani: “فوکوئوکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fukuoka-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hukuoka-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Фукуока”
  • Mongolian: “Фүкүока”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fukuoka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukuoka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hakata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fukuoka”
  • Norwegian: “Fukuoka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fukuoka”
  • Ossetian: “Фукуокæ”
  • Persian: “شهر فوکوئوکا”
  • Persian: “فوکوئوکا، فوکوئوکا”
  • Persian: “فوکوئوکا”
  • Persian: “فوکوکا، فوکوکا”
  • Persian: “فوکوکا”
  • Piemontese: “Fukuoka”
  • Polish: “Fukuoka”
  • Pontic: “Φουκουόκα”
  • Portuguese: “Fukuoka”
  • Pushto: “فوکویوکا”
  • Quechua: “Fukuoka”
  • Romanian: “Fukuoka”
  • Russia Buriat: “Фукуока”
  • Russian: “Фукуока”
  • Samogitian: “Fukuoka”
  • Sardinian: “Fukuoka”
  • Scots: “Fukuoka”
  • Serbian: “Fukuoka”
  • Serbian: “Фукуока”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fukuoka”
  • Silesian: “Fukuoka”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුකෝකා”
  • Slovak: “Fukuoka”
  • Slovenian: “Fukuoka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فوکوئوکا”
  • Spanish: “Fukuoka”
  • Sundanese: “Fukuoka”
  • Swahili: “Fukuoka, Fukuoka”
  • Swahili: “Fukuoka”
  • Swedish: “Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Ciudad ng Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod na Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Pukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Pukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Pukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Pukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Pukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Pukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Pukuoka”
  • Tajik: “Фукуока”
  • Tamil: “புக்குவோக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Фукуока”
  • Telugu: “ఫుక్యుయోకా”
  • Thai: “ฟูกูโอกะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Fukuoka”
  • Turkish: “Fukuoka”
  • Twi: “Fukuoka”
  • Udmurt: “Фукуока”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукуока”
  • Ukrainian: “Хаката”
  • Urdu: “فوکوکا”
  • Uzbek: “Fukuoka”
  • Venetian: “Fukuoka”
  • Veps: “Fukuok”
  • Vietnamese: “Fukuoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Phúc Cương thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Phúc Cương”
  • Vietnamese: “Phước Cương”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Fukuoka”
  • Volapük: “Fukuoka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fukuoka”
  • Welsh: “Fukuoka”
  • Western Panjabi: “فکوکا”
  • Wolof: “Fukuoka”
  • Wu Chinese: “福冈市”
  • Yue Chinese: “福岡市”
  • “Fukuoka”
  • “Fukuoka Shi”
  • “Fukuoka-shi”
  • “ふくおかし”
  • “福岡市”

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