Kawagoe
Kawagoe is an old trading outpost of the ancient capital Edo. Located in Saitama prefecture, the city is now a small suburban city of around 33,000 people, but the preserved warehouse district draws around 4 million visitors to the city each year, and has earned the city the nickname of "Little Edo".
- Type: City with 351,000 residents
- Description: city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Kawagoe Saitama”, “Kawagoe, Saitama”, “Koedo”, “Thành phố Kawagoe”, and “كاواجوه، سايتاما”
- Neighbors: Ageo, Saitama, and Tokorozawa
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kawagoe Castle and Hon-Kawagoe Station.
Kawagoe Castle
Castle
Kawagoe
- Categories: core city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Saitama, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.9251° or 35° 55′ 30″ north
Longitude
139.4857° or 139° 29′ 9″ east
Population
351,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP KWE
Open location code
8Q7XWFGP+27
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kawagoe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاواغويه”
- Armenian: “Կավագոե”
- Asturian: “Kawagoe”
- Azerbaijani: “Kavaqoe”
- Basque: “Kawagoe”
- Belarusian: “Кавагоэ”
- Bengali: “কাওয়াগো”
- Bulgarian: “Кавагое”
- Catalan: “Kawagoe”
- Cebuano: “Kawagoe”
- Chechen: “Кавагоэ”
- Chinese: “川越市”
- Czech: “Kawagoe”
- Danish: “Kawagoe”
- Dutch: “Kawagoe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاواجويه”
- Esperanto: “Kaŭagoe”
- Finnish: “Kawagoe”
- French: “Kawagoe”
- Galician: “Kawagoe”
- Georgian: “კავაგოე”
- German: “Kawagoe”
- Greek: “Καβατζόε”
- Gujarati: “કાવાગોએ”
- Hindi: “कावागोई”
- Hungarian: “Kavagoe”
- Indonesian: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
- Indonesian: “Kawagoe”
- Irish: “Kawagoe”
- Italian: “Kawagoe”
- Japanese: “Kawagoe-shi”
- Japanese: “かわごえし”
- Japanese: “川越”
- Japanese: “川越市”
- Kannada: “ಕವಾಗೊ”
- Korean: “가와고에 시”
- Korean: “가와고에시”
- Latvian: “Kavagoje”
- Literary Chinese: “川越市”
- Lithuanian: “Kavagojė”
- Malay: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
- Malay: “Kawagoe”
- Marathi: “कवागोए”
- Marathi: “कावागोए”
- Mazanderani: “کاواگوئه، سایتاما”
- Mazanderani: “کاواگوئه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kawagoe-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Кавагоэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kawagoe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kawagoe”
- Norwegian: “Kawagoe”
- Persian: “کاواگوئه، سایتاما”
- Persian: “کاواگوئه”
- Polish: “Kawagoe”
- Portuguese: “Kawagoe”
- Romanian: “Kawagoe”
- Russian: “Кавагоэ”
- Scots: “Kawagoe Ceety”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kawagoe”
- Serbian: “Kavagoe”
- Serbian: “Кавагое”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kavagoe”
- Sinhala: “කවගොයි”
- Slovenian: “Kavagoja”
- Spanish: “Kawagoe”
- Swedish: “Kawagoe”
- Tagalog: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
- Tagalog: “Kawagoe”
- Tajik: “Kavagoe”
- Tajik: “Кавагое”
- Tamil: “காவாகோஈ”
- Tatar: “Кавагое”
- Tatar: “Кавагоэ”
- Telugu: “కావాగోయి”
- Thai: “คะวะโงะเอะ”
- Thai: “คาวาโงเอะ”
- Turkish: “Kawagoe”
- Ukrainian: “Каваґое”
- Urdu: “کاواگوے، سائیتاما”
- Urdu: “کاواگوے”
- Venetian: “Kawagoe”
- Vietnamese: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
- Vietnamese: “Kawagoe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kawagoe, Saitama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kawagoe”
- Yue Chinese: “川越”
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