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Iwate

Iwate Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the of . It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at 15,275 square kilometres, with a population of 1,165,886.
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is the capital of Iwate Prefecture. Due to its transport links, it's a good option for a stopover on the way to either Akita or Hokkaido or a base for day trips to Kakunodate and some of the other small towns in the area.

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is a city in Iwate Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2020, the city had an estimated population of 94,691, and a population density of 100 persons per km2, in 37,773 households.

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is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, . As of 1 April 2020, the city had an estimated population of 25,076, and a population density of 29 persons per km2 in 10,531 households. The total area of the city is 862.30 square kilometres.

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is an ex-steeltown in Iwate, . Hashino Iron Mine was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015.

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is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, in the of northern . As of 1 May 2020, the city had a population of 114,476 and a population density of 91 persons per km2 in 46,375 households.

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Tōno is a city in Iwate Prefecture, . As of 1 January 2020, the city had an estimated population of 26,378, and a population density of 31.6 persons per km2 in 10,759 households.

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is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2020, the city had an estimated population of 26,344, and a population density of 63 persons per km2 in 11,803 households. The total area of the city is 420.42 square kilometres.

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is a small city of approximately 51,000 people on the eastern-most coast of , Japan's main island. The main attraction is its surrounding national park and the Jodoga-hama beach.

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is a town located in Nishiiwai District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 April 2020, the town had an estimated population of 7,408 and a population density of 120 inhabitants per square kilometre in 2,616 households.

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Ōtsuchi is a town located in , Iwate Prefecture, in the of northern . As of 1 March 2020, the town had an estimated population of 11,572 and a population density of 58 persons per km2 in 5308 households.

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is in Iwate prefecture and is the largest town on — by land area, that is. It's well known for its clear spring water and caves across town.

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Village is a small village on the coast of Sanriku in Iwate, it has some spectacular landscapes along its coastlines.

Iwate

Latitude of center
39.5714° or 39° 34′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
141.4254° or 141° 25′ 31″ east
Population
1,210,000
Elevation
579 metres (1,900 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 471357231
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
2112518
Wiki­data ID
Q48326
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Iwate” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Iwate”
  • Afrikaans: “Iwate Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Iwate-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “إيواته”
  • Arabic: “محافظة إيواته”
  • Arabic: “محافظة إيواتيه”
  • Armenian: “Իվաթե”
  • Armenian: “Իվատե”
  • Asturian: “Iwate (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Iwate (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Iwate”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura d’Iwate”
  • Azerbaijani: “İvate prefekturası”
  • Azerbaijani: “İvate”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Iwaté”
  • Bashkir: “Иватэ (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Иватэ”
  • Basque: “Iwate”
  • Belarusian: “Іватэ (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Іватэ”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Іватэ”
  • Bengali: “ইওয়াতে প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ивате”
  • Burmese: “အိဝတဲခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Iwate”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura d’Iwate”
  • Cebuano: “Iwate-ken”
  • Central Bikol: “Prepekturang Iwate”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیواتێ”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئیواتێ”
  • Chechen: “Иватэ (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Иватэ”
  • Chinese: “Iwate-koān”
  • Chinese: “岩手”
  • Chinese: “岩手县”
  • Chinese: “岩手縣”
  • Croatian: “Iwate”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Iwate”
  • Czech: “prefektura Iwate”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Iwate”
  • Danish: “Iwate-ken”
  • Danish: “Iwate-præfekturet”
  • Danish: “岩手県”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Iwate”
  • Dutch: “Iwate”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Iŭate”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Ivate”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Ivate”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Ivato”
  • Esperanto: “Ivate”
  • Esperanto: “Ivato”
  • Esperanto: “Iwate-ken”
  • Esperanto: “JP-03”
  • Estonian: “Iwate prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Iwate”
  • Finnish: “Iwaten prefektuuri”
  • French: “Iwate”
  • French: “préfecture d’Iwate”
  • French: “Préfecture d’Iwate”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Iwate”
  • Gan Chinese: “岩手县”
  • Georgian: “ივატე”
  • Georgian: “ივატეს პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Iwate”
  • German: “JP-03”
  • German: “Präfektur Iwate”
  • Greek: “Ιουάτε”
  • Gujarati: “ઇવેટ પ્રીફેક્ચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Iwate-yen”
  • Hebrew: “איווטה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז איווטה”
  • Hindi: “इवाते प्रीफ़ेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Ivate prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Iwate”
  • Iloko: “Prefectura ti Iwate”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Iwate”
  • Indonesian: “Iwate”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Iwate”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Iwate”
  • Italian: “Iwate”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Iwate”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Iwate”
  • Japanese: “Iwate-ken”
  • Japanese: “いわて”
  • Japanese: “イワテ”
  • Japanese: “いわてけん”
  • Japanese: “イワテケン”
  • Japanese: “岩手”
  • Japanese: “岩手県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Iwate”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Iwate”
  • Kannada: “ಇವಾತೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಐವೇಟ್ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តអ៊ីវ៉ាតិ”
  • Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត អ៊ីវ៉ាតិ”
  • Korean: “이와떼현”
  • Korean: “이와테 현”
  • Korean: “이와테현”
  • Korean: “이화테 현”
  • Latin: “Iwate”
  • Latin: “Iwateensis”
  • Latvian: “Ivates prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “岩手縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Ivatė prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Ivatės prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Iwate prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Ивате”
  • Malay: “Iwate”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Iwate”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯋꯥꯇꯦ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “इवाते प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “इवाते”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Iwate-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iwate Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iwate-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iwate-kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “ივატეშ პრეფექტურა”
  • Mongolian: “Иватэ”
  • Nepali: “इवाते”
  • Northern Frisian: “Iwate-ken”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Iwate”
  • Northern Sami: “Iwate prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iwate prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iwate prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Iwate”
  • Novial: “Iwate Prefekture”
  • Ossetian: “Ивате (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Ивате”
  • Pampanga: “Iwate Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Iwate”
  • Persian: “استان ایواته”
  • Polish: “Iwate”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Iwate”
  • Portuguese: “Iwate”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Iwate”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Iwate”
  • Russian: “Ивате”
  • Russian: “Иватэ”
  • Scots: “Iwate Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Ивате”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Ивате”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ivate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Iwate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Ivate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Iwate”
  • Sinhala: “අයිවටේ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “ඉවතේ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Iwate”
  • Slovenian: “JP-03”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Ivate”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Iwate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایواته اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Iwate Japon”
  • Spanish: “Iwate Japón”
  • Spanish: “Iwate”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Iwate”
  • Sundanese: “Iwate Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Iwate”
  • Swedish: “Iwate prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Iwate”
  • Tagalog: “Iwate Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Iwate”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Iwate”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ивате”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Иватэ”
  • Tamil: “இவாட்டே ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Иватэ (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Иватэ”
  • Telugu: “ఇవాటె ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอิวาเตะ”
  • Turkish: “Iwate prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Iwate”
  • Uighur: “ئىۋاتە ناھىيىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Івате”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Івате”
  • Urdu: “ایواتے پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Iwate”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iwate Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iwate”
  • Welsh: “Iwate”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ایواٹے”
  • Wu Chinese: “岩手县”
  • Yue Chinese: “岩手”
  • Yue Chinese: “岩手县”
  • Yue Chinese: “岩手縣”

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