Ishikawa
Ishikawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,096,721 and has a geographic area of 4,191 km2.
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Ishikawa
- Type: Province with 1,140,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “Ishikawa (prefeutura)”, “Ishikawa (Xapón)”, “Ishikawa Japon”, “Ishikawa Japón”, “Ishikawa Prefecture”, “Ishikawa prefektörlüğü”, “Ishikawa prefektujo”, “Ishikawa prefektūra”, “Ishikawa-koān”, “Ishikawa-kōan”, “Iŝikaŭa”, “Iŝikaŭa prefektujo”, “Iŝikaŭa-prefektujo”, “Išikava prefektūra”, “Išikavas prefektūra”, “Isikawa Koān”, “Isikawa-kōan”, “JP-17”, “Prepekturang Ishikawa”, “Prepekturang Isyikawa”, “Thạch Xuyên Huyện”, “Tỉnh Ishikawa”, “Ішикава”, “ისიკავა”, “محافظة إيشيكاوا”, “이시가와 현”, and “이시까와 현”
- Neighbors: Fukui, Gifu, and Toyama
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
36.9891° or 36° 59′ 21″ north
Longitude of center
136.8163° or 136° 48′ 59″ east
Population
1,140,000
Elevation
121 metres (397 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Ishikawa” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Ishikawa”
- Afrikaans: “Ishikawa Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Ishikawa-prefektuur”
- Amharic: “ኢሺካዋ”
- Arabic: “إيشيكاوا”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Ishikawa”
- Armenian: “Իսիկավա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Իսիկավա”
- Asturian: “prefeutura d’Ishikawa”
- Azerbaijani: “İşikava prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Ishikawa”
- Bashkir: “Исикава”
- Basque: “Ishikawa”
- Belarusian: “Ісікава”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Ісікава”
- Bengali: “ইশিকাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Ишикава”
- Burmese: “အိရှိခဝခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “prefectura d’Ishikawa”
- Catalan: “Prefectura d’Ishikawa”
- Cebuano: “Ishikawa-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیشیکاوا”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئیشیکاوا”
- Chechen: “Исикава (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Исикава”
- Chinese: “石川县”
- Chinese: “石川縣”
- Croatian: “Ishikawa”
- Czech: “prefektura Išikawa”
- Czech: “Prefektura Išikawa”
- Danish: “Ishikawa-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Ishikawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة ايشيكاوا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه ايشيكاوا”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Iŝikaŭa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Iŝikavo”
- Estonian: “Ishikawa prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Ishikawa”
- Finnish: “Ishikawan prefektuuri”
- French: “Ishikawa”
- French: “préfecture d’Ishikawa”
- French: “Préfecture d’Ishikawa”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Ishikawa”
- Georgian: “ისიკავის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Ishikawa”
- German: “Präfektur Ishikawa”
- Greek: “Ισικάβα”
- Greek: “νομός Ισικάουα”
- Gujarati: “ઇશિકાવા પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ishikawa-yen”
- Hausa: “Ishikawa”
- Hebrew: “אישיקווה”
- Hindi: “इशिकावा प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Isikava prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Ishikawa”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Ishikawa”
- Inari Sami: “Ishikawa prefektuur”
- Indonesian: “Ishikawa”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Ishikawa”
- Irish: “Maoracht Ishikawa”
- Italian: “prefettura di Ishikawa”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Ishikawa”
- Japanese: “Ishikawa-ken”
- Japanese: “いしかわけん”
- Japanese: “石川”
- Japanese: “石川県”
- Javanese: “Ishikawa”
- Kannada: “ಇಶಿಕಾವಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kannada: “ಇಶಿಕಾವಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ishikabа”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Isikavа prefekturası”
- Kazakh: “Ishikawa”
- Kirghiz: “Ishikawa”
- Korean: “이시까와현”
- Korean: “이시카와 현”
- Korean: “이시카와현”
- Latin: “Ishikawaensis”
- Latvian: “Isikavas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “石川縣”
- Lithuanian: “Išikavos prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Ишикава”
- Malay: “Wilayah Ishikawa”
- Manipuri: “ꯏꯁꯤꯀꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “इशिकावा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “इशिकावा”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ishikawa-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Isikawa-koān”
- Nepali: “इसिकावा”
- Northern Frisian: “Ishikawa (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Ishikawa”
- Northern Sami: “Ishikawa prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ishikawa prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ishikawa prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Ishikawa”
- Oromo: “Ishikawa”
- Ossetian: “Исикавæ”
- Pampanga: “Ishikawa Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Ishikawa”
- Panjabi: “ਇਸ਼ਿਕਾਵਾ”
- Persian: “استان ایشیکاوا”
- Polish: “Prefektura Ishikawa”
- Portuguese: “Ishikawa”
- Pushto: “ايشيکاوا”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Ishikawa”
- Russian: “Исикава”
- Scots: “Ishikawa Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Išikava”
- Serbian: “Ишикава”
- Serbian: “Префектура Ишикава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Išikava”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Ishikawa”
- Sinhala: “ඉෂිකාවා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Išikawa”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Išikava”
- Somali: “Ishikawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایشیکاوا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Ishikawa”
- Sundanese: “Préféktur Ishikawa”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Ishikawa”
- Swedish: “Ishikawa prefektur”
- Swedish: “Ishikawa”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Ishikawa”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Isikava”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Исикава”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Ишикава”
- Tamil: “இஷிகாவா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
- Tatar: “Исикава (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Исикава”
- Telugu: “ఇషికావా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอิชิกาวะ”
- Turkish: “Ishikawa”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Ісікава”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Ішікава”
- Urdu: “اشیکاوا پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Ishikawa”
- Vietnamese: “Ishikawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ishikawa”
- Welsh: “Ishikawa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اشیکاوا”
- Wu Chinese: “石川县”
- Yue Chinese: “石川縣”
- “ma Isikawa”
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