Iwate
Iwate Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at 15,275 square kilometres, with a population of 1,165,886.
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Iwate
- Type: Province with 1,210,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “gubernio Ivato”, “Ihate-ken”, “Ivate”, “Ivatė prefektūra”, “Ivato”, “Iwate (prefeutura)”, “Iwate (Xapón)”, “Iwate Japon”, “Iwate Japón”, “Iwate Ken”, “Iwate Koān”, “Iwate Prefecture”, “Iwate prefektörlüğü”, “Iwate prefektūra”, “Iwate-kōan”, “JP-03”, “Prefectura ti Iwate”, “Prefeitura de Iwate”, “Івате”, “Іватэ (прэфектура)”, “ივატე”, “Իվաթե”, “מחוז איווטה”, “محافظة إيواته”, “محافظة إيواتيه”, “អាណាខេត្ត អ៊ីវ៉ាតិ”, and “이와테 현”
- Neighbors: Akita, Aomori, and Miyagi
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Amharic: “ኢዋቴ”
- Arabic: “إيواته”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Iwate”
- Armenian: “Իվատե”
- Asturian: “prefeutura d’Iwate”
- Azerbaijani: “İvate prefekturası”
- Azerbaijani: “İvate”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Iwaté”
- Bashkir: “Иватэ (префектура)”
- Bashkir: “Иватэ”
- Basque: “Iwate”
- 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: “岩手县”
- Chinese: “岩手縣”
- Croatian: “Iwate”
- Czech: “prefektura Iwate”
- Czech: “Prefektura Iwate”
- Danish: “Iwate-præfekturet”
- Dimli (individual language): “Iwate”
- Dutch: “Iwate”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Iŭate”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Ivate”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Ivate”
- Estonian: “Iwate prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Iwaten prefektuuri”
- French: “Iwate”
- French: “préfecture d’Iwate”
- French: “Préfecture d’Iwate”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Iwate”
- Gan Chinese: “岩手县”
- Georgian: “ივატეს პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Iwate”
- German: “Präfektur Iwate”
- Greek: “Ιουάτε”
- Gujarati: “ઇવેટ પ્રીફેક્ચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Iwate-yen”
- Hausa: “Iwate”
- Hebrew: “איווטה”
- Hindi: “इवाते प्रीफ़ेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Ivate prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Iwate”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Iwate”
- Indonesian: “Iwate”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Iwate”
- Irish: “Maoracht 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”
- Kazakh: “Iwate”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តអ៊ីវ៉ាតិ”
- Kirghiz: “Iwate”
- Korean: “이와떼현”
- Korean: “이와테현”
- Korean: “이화테 현”
- Latin: “Iwate”
- Latin: “Iwateensis”
- Latvian: “Ivates prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “岩手縣”
- Lithuanian: “Ivatės prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Ивате”
- Malay: “Wilayah Iwate”
- Manipuri: “ꯏꯋꯥꯇꯦ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “इवाते प्रांत”
- Marathi: “इवाते”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Iwate-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Iwate-koān”
- Mingrelian: “ივატეშ პრეფექტურა”
- Mongolian: “Иватэ муж”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Iwate”
- Ossetian: “Ивате (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Ивате”
- Pampanga: “Iwate Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Iwate”
- Panjabi: “ਈਵਾਟੇ”
- Persian: “استان ایواته”
- Polish: “Iwate”
- Polish: “Prefektura Iwate”
- Portuguese: “Iwate”
- Pushto: “اواته”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Iwate”
- Russian: “Ивате”
- Russian: “Иватэ”
- Scots: “Iwate Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Ивате”
- Serbian: “Префектура Ивате”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Ivate”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Iwate”
- Sinhala: “අයිවටේ ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “ඉවතේ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Iwate”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Ivate”
- Somali: “Iwate”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایواته اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Iwate”
- Sundanese: “Iwate Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Iwate”
- Swedish: “Iwate prefektur”
- Swedish: “Iwate”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Iwate”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Ивате”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Иватэ”
- Tamil: “இவாட்டே ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
- Tatar: “Иватэ (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Иватэ”
- Telugu: “ఇవాటె ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอิวาเตะ”
- Turkish: “Iwate”
- Uighur: “ئىۋاتە ناھىيىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Івате”
- Urdu: “ایواتے پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Iwate”
- Vietnamese: “Iwate”
- Waray (Philippines): “Iwate”
- Welsh: “Iwate”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ایواٹے”
- Wu Chinese: “岩手县”
- Yue Chinese: “岩手縣”
- “ma Iwate”
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