Fukuoka

Fukuoka Prefecture is the most populous prefecture of , with a population of over 5 million.
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is the capital of prefecture and the largest city on the island of . is a good starting point for first-time visitors to Japan.

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is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 295,367 in 137,140 households, and a population density of 1309 people per km². The total area of the city is 229.96 km2.

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is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2024, the city had an estimated population of 71,505 in 33204 households, and a population density of 260 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 29.60 km2.

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Nōgata is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, . As of 29 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 55,151 in 27,684 households, and a population density of 890 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 61.76 km2.

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is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, . As of 29 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 106,513 in 48029 households, and a population density of 1200 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 87.73 km2.

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is a city in Fukuoka prefecture. tea is one of the largest Japanese tea production areas, and as famous as other places like , and .

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is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, . As of 29 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 68,834 in 31114 households, and a population density of 1300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 52.76 km2.

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is an island in Fukuoka prefecture of . It is home to an extremely sacred Shinto shrine and is notoriously almost impossible to get into— in fact, no women whatsoever are allowed on the island.

is a rural city in the center of the Plain in southern Fukuoka Prefecture, .

Fukuoka

Latitude of center
33.6251° or 33° 37′ 30″ north
Longitude of center
130.618° or 130° 37′ 5″ east
Population
5,000,000
Elevation
212 metres (696 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3057396438
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1863958
Wiki­data ID
Q123258
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Fukuoka” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Fukuoka”
  • Afrikaans: “Fukuoka Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Fukuoka-prefektuur”
  • Amharic: “ፉኩዖካ”
  • Arabic: “فوكوأوكا”
  • Arabic: “فوكوكا”
  • Arabic: “فوكووكا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة فوكوأوكا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة فوكوكا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Fukuoka”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուկուոկա”
  • Asturian: “Fukuoka (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Fukuoka (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Fukuoka”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Fukuoka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fukuoka prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Fukuoka”
  • Bashkir: “Фукуока (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Фукуока”
  • Basque: “Fukuoka”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Фукуока”
  • Belarusian: “Фукуока”
  • Bengali: “ফুকুওকা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Фукуока”
  • Burmese: “ဖုခုအိုခခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Fukuoka”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Fukuoka”
  • Cebuano: “Fukuoka-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای فوکوئۆکا”
  • Central Kurdish: “فوکوئۆکا”
  • Chechen: “Фукуока (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Фукуока”
  • Chinese: “Fúgāng Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “Hukuoka-koān”
  • Chinese: “福冈县”
  • Chinese: “福岡縣”
  • Croatian: “Fukuoka”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Czech: “prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Danish: “Fukuoka-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Fukuoka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة فوكوكا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه فوكوكا”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuoka prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuoka-prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuoka”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Fukuoka”
  • Estonian: “Fukuoka prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Fukuokan prefektuuri”
  • French: “Fukuoka”
  • French: “préfecture de Fukuoka”
  • French: “Préfecture de Fukuoka”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Fukuoka”
  • Georgian: “ფუკუოკის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Fukuoka-ken”
  • German: “Fukuoka”
  • German: “JP-40”
  • German: “Präfektur Fukuoka”
  • Greek: “Νομός Φουκουόκα”
  • Greek: “Φουκουόκα”
  • Gujarati: “ફુકુઓકા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kông-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fukuoka-yen”
  • Hausa: “Fukuoka”
  • Hebrew: “פוקואוקה”
  • Hindi: “फ़ुकुओका प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Fukuoka prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Fukuoka”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Fukuoka”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Fukuoka”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Fukuoka”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Fukuoka”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Fukuoka”
  • Japanese: “Fukuoka Ken”
  • Japanese: “Fukuoka-ken”
  • Japanese: “ふくおかけん”
  • Japanese: “福岡”
  • Japanese: “福岡県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Fukuoka”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Fukuoka”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಕುಕಾಕಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Fukuoka”
  • Kirghiz: “Fukuoka”
  • Korean: “후꾸오까현”
  • Korean: “후쿠오카 현”
  • Korean: “후쿠오카현”
  • Latvian: “Fukuokas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “福岡縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukuoka prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukuokos prefektūra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Prefektur Fukuoka”
  • Macedonian: “Фукуока”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Fukuoka”
  • Manipuri: “ꯐꯨꯀꯨꯑꯣꯀꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “फुकुओका प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “फुकुओका”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Fukuoka-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fukuoka-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hukuoka Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hukuoka-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hukuoka-kōan”
  • Nepali: “फुकुओका”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fukuoka (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fukuoka”
  • Northern Sami: “Fukuoka prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukuoka prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fukuoka prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Fukuoka”
  • Novial: “Fukuoka Prefekture”
  • Oromo: “Fukuoka”
  • Ossetian: “Фукуокæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Фукуокæ”
  • Pampanga: “Fukuoka Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Fukuoka”
  • Panjabi: “ਫੁਕੁਓਕਾ”
  • Persian: “استان فوکوئوکا”
  • Polish: “Fukuoka”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Portuguese: “Fucuoca”
  • Portuguese: “Fukuoka (prefeitura)”
  • Portuguese: “Fukuoka”
  • Pushto: “فوکواکا”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Fukuoka”
  • Russian: “Фукуока”
  • Scots: “Fukuoka Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Фукуока”
  • Serbian: “Фукуока”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fukuoka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Sindhi: “فوڪوڪا پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුකෝකා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Fukuoka”
  • Slovenian: “JP-40”
  • Slovenian: “prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Fukuoka”
  • Somali: “Fukuoka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فوکوئوکا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Fukuoka”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Fukuoka”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Fukuoka”
  • Sundanese: “Fukuoka Prefecture”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Fukuoka”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Fukuoka”
  • Swedish: “Fukuoka prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Fukuoka Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Fukuoka”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Pukuoka”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Fukuoka”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Фукуока”
  • Tamil: “பிக்குஒக்கா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Фукуока (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Фукуока”
  • Telugu: “ఫుకువోకా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฟูกูโอกะ”
  • Turkish: “Fukuoka prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Fukuoka”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Фукуока”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукуока”
  • Urdu: “فوکوکا پریفیکچر”
  • Uzbek: “Fukuoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Fukuoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Phúc Cương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fukuoka Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fukuoka”
  • Welsh: “Fukuoka-ken”
  • Welsh: “Fukuoka”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع فوکوکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “福冈县”
  • Yakut: “Фукуока префектурата”
  • Yue Chinese: “福岡”
  • Yue Chinese: “福岡縣”

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