Hofu
Hofu is a city in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. It is named after its former status as the provincial capital of Suō Province.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hōfu Station and Hōfu Air Field.
Hōfu Air Field
Aerodrome
Hōfu Air Field is a military aerodrome of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Hōfu-kita Airbase.
Hofu
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Yamaguchi, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.0517° or 34° 3′ 6″ north
Longitude
131.5629° or 131° 33′ 47″ east
Population
114,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP HOF
Open location code
8Q6H3H27+M5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hofu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوفا، ياماغوتشي”
- Arabic: “هوفا”
- Asturian: “Hōfu”
- Bengali: “হোফু”
- Catalan: “Hōfu”
- Cebuano: “Hōfu”
- Chechen: “Хофу”
- Chinese: “防府市”
- Czech: “Hófu”
- Danish: “Hofu”
- Dutch: “Hofu”
- Dutch: “Hōfu”
- Esperanto: “Hofu”
- Estonian: “Hōfu”
- Finnish: “Hōfu”
- French: “Hōfu”
- Galician: “Hōfu”
- German: “Hōfu”
- Greek: “Χόφου”
- Gujarati: “હોફુ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hōfu-sṳ”
- Hindi: “होफू”
- Hungarian: “Hófu”
- Indonesian: “Hōfu, Yamaguchi”
- Indonesian: “Hōfu”
- Irish: “Hōfu”
- Italian: “Hōfu”
- Japanese: “Houfu-shi”
- Japanese: “ほうふし”
- Japanese: “防府”
- Japanese: “防府市”
- Kannada: “ಹೋಫು”
- Kazakh: “Хофу”
- Korean: “호후시”
- Latvian: “Hofu”
- Literary Chinese: “防府市”
- Lithuanian: “Hofu”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Hōfu”
- Malagasy: “Hōfu”
- Malay: “Hofu”
- Marathi: “होफू”
- Mazanderani: “هوفو، یاماگوچی”
- Mazanderani: “هوفو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hôhu-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hofu”
- Norwegian: “Hōfu”
- Persian: “هوفو”
- Polish: “Hōfu”
- Portuguese: “Hōfu”
- Romanian: “Hofu”
- Romanian: “Hōfu”
- Russian: “Хофу”
- Scots: “Hōfu”
- Serbian: “Hofu”
- Serbian: “Хофу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hofu”
- Sinhala: “හොෆු”
- Slovenian: “Hofu”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوفو، یاماقوچی”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوفو”
- Spanish: “Hōfu”
- Swedish: “Hōfu”
- Tagalog: “Hōfu”
- Tajik: “Hofu”
- Tajik: “Ҳофу”
- Tamil: “ஹோபியூ”
- Tatar: “Хофу”
- Tatar: “Һофу”
- Telugu: “హోఫు”
- Thai: “โฮฟุ”
- Tumbuka: “Hōfu”
- Turkish: “Hōfu”
- Ukrainian: “Хофу”
- Urdu: “ہوفو”
- Venetian: “Hōfu”
- Vietnamese: “Hōfu, Yamaguchi”
- Vietnamese: “Hōfu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hōfu, Yamaguchi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hōfu”
- Yue Chinese: “防府”
- “防府市”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 寿町 and 佐波一丁目.
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