Honshu

Honshu is the largest island of , housing the great majority of its population and also hosting most of its visitors. Due to its size, it is commonly subdivided into smaller regions. From northeast to southwest:…
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  • Island
  • …has 104,000,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 963 metres (3,159 feet)
  • Description: largest island of Japan
  • Also known as
    “Big Island”
    “Hondo”
    “Hondo I.”
    “Hondo Is.”
    “Hondo Island”
    “Honschiu”
    “Honshiu”
    “Honshu I.”
    “Honshu Island”
    “Honshuu”
    “Honsyu”
    “Japan”
    “Main Island”
    “Meaco”
    “Meako”
    “Niphon”
    “Nipon”
    “Nippon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tatsuno Station and Miyaki Station.
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is a railway station in the town…
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is a railway station on the Iida Line…
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Station is a railway station in the…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tatsuno.
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is a town located in , Japan.

Honshu

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Latitude
36° north
Longitude
138° east
Open location code
8Q8W2222+22
Geo­Names ID
1862185
Wiki­data ID
Q13989

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Honshu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Honshu”
  • Afrikaans: “Honsjoe”
  • Albanian: “Honshū”
  • Amharic: “ሆንሹ”
  • Arabic: “هونشو”
  • Aragonese: “Honshu”
  • Armenian: “Հոնսյու”
  • Armenian: “Նիպոն”
  • Asturian: “Honshu”
  • Asturian: “Honshū”
  • Azerbaijani: “Honşu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hönsü”
  • Balinese: “Honshu”
  • Bambara: “Honshu”
  • Bashkir: “Хонсю”
  • Basque: “Honshu”
  • Bavarian: “Honshu”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Хансю”
  • Belarusian: “Хансю”
  • Belarusian: “Хонсю”
  • Bengali: “হোনশু”
  • Bosnian: “Honshū”
  • Bosnian: “Honšu”
  • Breton: “Honshū”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоншу”
  • Burmese: “ဟွန်ရှူးကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Honshū”
  • Cebuano: “Honshū Island”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھۆنشوو”
  • Central Okinawan: “ふんしゅー”
  • Central Okinawan: “本州”
  • Chechen: “Хонсю”
  • Chinese: “本州”
  • Chinese: “本州岛”
  • Chinese: “本州島”
  • Croatian: “Honshū”
  • Czech: “Honšú”
  • Danish: “Honshu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Honshū”
  • Dutch: “Honshu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هونشو”
  • Esperanto: “Honŝu”
  • Esperanto: “Honŝuo”
  • Estonian: “Honshū”
  • Faroese: “Honshu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Honshu”
  • Fijian: “Honshu”
  • Finnish: “Honshū”
  • French: “Honshu”
  • French: “Honshû”
  • French: “Honshū”
  • French: “Ni-fon”
  • French: “Nippon”
  • Galician: “Honshu”
  • Georgian: “ჰონსიუ”
  • German: “Honschu”
  • German: “Honshu”
  • German: “Honshū”
  • German: “Honshuu”
  • German: “japanisches Kernland”
  • Greek: “Χονσού”
  • Greek: “Χονσοῡ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Honshū”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pún-chû”
  • Hausa: “Honshu”
  • Hebrew: “הונשו”
  • Hindi: “होन्शू”
  • Hungarian: “Honsú”
  • Iban: “Honshu”
  • Icelandic: “Honshū”
  • Ido: “Honshu”
  • Iloko: “Honshu”
  • Indonesian: “Honshu”
  • Indonesian: “Honshū”
  • Interlingua: “Honshu”
  • Interlingue: “Honshū”
  • Irish: “Honshu”
  • Irish: “Honshū”
  • Italian: “Honshū”
  • Japanese: “ほんしゅう”
  • Japanese: “本州”
  • Japanese: “本州島”
  • Javanese: “Honshu”
  • Kabyle: “Honcu”
  • Kazakh: “Хонсю”
  • Khmer: “ហុងស្ស៊ូ”
  • Kirghiz: “Хонсю”
  • Korean: “혼슈”
  • Kurdish: “Honşû”
  • Lao: “ຮອນຊູ”
  • Latin: “Honsua”
  • Latvian: “Honsju”
  • Literary Chinese: “本州”
  • Lithuanian: “Hondas”
  • Lithuanian: “Honsiu”
  • Lithuanian: “Honšiu”
  • Macedonian: “Хоншу”
  • Malay: “Honshū”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോൺഷു”
  • Maltese: “Honshu”
  • Marathi: “होन्शू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Honsyû”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pún-chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “Honshū”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰონსიუ”
  • Mongolian: “Хоншүү”
  • Newari: “होन्शु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Honshū”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Honshu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Honshu”
  • Norwegian: “Honshu”
  • Novial: “Honshu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Honshū”
  • Ossetian: “Хонсю”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋਂਸ਼ੂ”
  • Persian: “هونشو”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Honshu”
  • Polish: “Honsiu”
  • Portuguese: “Honshu”
  • Portuguese: “Honshū”
  • Pushto: “هانشو”
  • Quechua: “Honshu”
  • Romanian: “Honshu”
  • Romanian: “Honshū”
  • Russian: “Ниппон”
  • Russian: “Хондо”
  • Russian: “Хонсю”
  • Samogitian: “Honšiū”
  • Samogitian: “Huonšiū”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱳᱱᱥᱩ”
  • Sardinian: “Honshū”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Honshū”
  • Scots: “Honshu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Honshū”
  • Serbian: “Хоншу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Honshū”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Honšu”
  • Shona: “Honshu”
  • Sindhi: “هونشو”
  • Sinhala: “හොන්ෂූ”
  • Slovak: “Honšu”
  • Slovenian: “Honšu”
  • Somali: “Honshu”
  • Spanish: “Honshu”
  • Spanish: “Honshū”
  • Spanish: “Isla Grande”
  • Spanish: “Isla Principal”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Principal”
  • Sundanese: “Honshū”
  • Swahili: “Honshu”
  • Swedish: “Honshu”
  • Swiss German: “Honshu”
  • Tagalog: “Honshū”
  • Tamil: “ஒன்சூ”
  • Tatar: “Хонсю”
  • Thai: “เกาะฮนชู”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོན་ཤུ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Honshu”
  • Turkish: “Honshū”
  • Turkish: “Honşū”
  • Uighur: “خونسيو ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Хонсю”
  • Ukrainian: “Хоншю”
  • Urdu: “ہونشو”
  • Uzbek: “Xonsyu”
  • Vietnamese: “Bản Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Bản Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Honshu”
  • Vietnamese: “Hôn-su”
  • Vietnamese: “Honshu”
  • Vietnamese: “Honshū”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Honshu”
  • Welsh: “Honshū”
  • Western Frisian: “Honsjû”
  • Western Panjabi: “ھونشو”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہونشو”
  • Wu Chinese: “本州岛”
  • Yakut: “Хонсү”
  • Yiddish: “האנשו”
  • Yue Chinese: “本州”
  • Yue Chinese: “本州島”
  • “ma Onsu”

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