Furano
Furano, which is in the geographical center of Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, is an amalgamation of several quaint farming towns around a small municipal center.
- Type: City with 21,100 residents
- Description: city in Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as: “Furano-chō”, “Furano-machi”, “Furano, Hokkaido”, “Hurano”, and “Shima-furano”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Furano Station and Gakuden Station.
Gakuden Station
Railway station
Furano
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Northern Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
43.3423° or 43° 20′ 32″ north
Longitude
142.3835° or 142° 23′ 1″ east
Population
21,100
Elevation
170 metres (558 feet)
Open location code
8RM489RM+W9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Furano” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورانو، هوكايدو”
- Arabic: “فورانو”
- Asturian: “Furano”
- Azerbaijani: “Furano”
- Bengali: “ফুরানো”
- Catalan: “Furano”
- Cebuano: “Furano-shi”
- Chechen: “Фурано”
- Chinese: “富良野市”
- Czech: “Furano”
- Danish: “Furano”
- Dutch: “Furano”
- Finnish: “Furano”
- French: “Furano”
- Galician: “Furano, Xapón”
- Galician: “Furano”
- German: “Furano”
- Greek: “Φουράνο”
- Gujarati: “ફુરાનો”
- Hindi: “फुरानो”
- Hungarian: “Furano”
- Ido: “Furano, Hokkaido”
- Ido: “Furano”
- Indonesian: “Furano, Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Furano”
- Irish: “Furano”
- Italian: “Furano”
- Japanese: “Furano-shi”
- Japanese: “ふらのし”
- Japanese: “富良野”
- Japanese: “富良野市”
- Kannada: “ಫರಾನಾ”
- Korean: “후라노 시”
- Korean: “후라노시”
- Latvian: “Furano”
- Literary Chinese: “富良野市”
- Lithuanian: “Furanas”
- Malay: “Furano”
- Marathi: “फुरनो”
- Mazanderani: “فورانو، هوکایدو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hurano-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Furano”
- Pampanga: “Furano, Hokkaidō”
- Pampanga: “Furano”
- Persian: “فورانو، هوکایدو”
- Persian: “فورانو”
- Polish: “Furano”
- Portuguese: “Furano”
- Romanian: “Furano”
- Russian: “Фурано”
- Sinhala: “ෆුරානෝ”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورانو، هوکایدو”
- Spanish: “Furano”
- Swedish: “Furano”
- Tagalog: “Furano, Hokkaido”
- Tagalog: “Purano”
- Tajik: “Furano”
- Tajik: “Фурано”
- Tamil: “புறானா”
- Tatar: “Фурано”
- Telugu: “ఫురానో”
- Thai: “ฟุระโนะ”
- Thai: “ฟูราโนะ”
- Turkish: “Furano”
- Ukrainian: “Фурано”
- Urdu: “فرانو، ہوکائیدو”
- Urdu: “فورانو”
- Vietnamese: “Furano, Hokkaidō”
- Vietnamese: “Furano”
- Waray (Philippines): “Furano, Hokkaidō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Furano”
- Yue Chinese: “富良野市”
- “Furano-shi”
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