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Kawaguchi

Kawaguchi is a city located in southeastern , . As of 1 April 2025, the city had an estimated population of 595,011 in 293,582 households and a population density of 9605 persons per km².
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  • Type: City with 578,000 residents
  • Description: city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kawaguchi, Saitama”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kawaguchi and Nishi-Kawaguchi.

Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of , Saitama, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.

Railway station
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Station is a railway station on the Saikyō Line in , Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Tokyo and Ōji.

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Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita are a trio of suburban wards in north and northwestern , bordering and outer Tokyo's . All three lie well beyond the central Yamanote line – nearby is as close as it gets.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Kawaguchi

Latitude
35.8078° or 35° 48′ 28″ north
Longitude
139.7241° or 139° 43′ 27″ east
Population
578,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KWG
Open location code
8Q7XRP5F+4J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 864262454
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1859730
Wiki­data ID
Q387136
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kawaguchi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاواغوتشي”
  • Asturian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kavaquçi”
  • Balinese: “Kawaguchi, Saitama”
  • Basque: “Kawaguchi”
  • Belarusian: “Кавагуты (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Кавагуты”
  • Belarusian: “Кавагуці”
  • Bengali: “কাওয়াগোচি”
  • Catalan: “Kawaguchi”
  • Cebuano: “Kawaguchi”
  • Chechen: “Кавагути (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Кавагути”
  • Chinese: “Kawaguti-chhī”
  • Chinese: “川口”
  • Chinese: “川口市”
  • Czech: “Kawaguči”
  • Danish: “Kawaguchi”
  • Dutch: “Kawaguchi”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŭaguĉi”
  • Finnish: “Kawaguchi”
  • French: “Kawaguchi”
  • Galician: “Kawaguchi”
  • Georgian: “კავაგუტი”
  • German: “Kawaguchi”
  • Greek: “Καβαγκούτσι”
  • Gujarati: “કાવાગુચી”
  • Hebrew: “קווגוצ’י”
  • Hindi: “कावागूची”
  • Hungarian: “Kavagucsi”
  • Indonesian: “Kawaguchi, Saitama”
  • Indonesian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Irish: “Kawaguchi”
  • Italian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Japanese: “Kawaguchi-shi”
  • Japanese: “かわぐち”
  • Japanese: “カワグチ”
  • Japanese: “かわぐちし”
  • Japanese: “川口”
  • Japanese: “川口市”
  • Kannada: “ಕವಗುಚಿ”
  • Korean: “가와구치 시”
  • Korean: “가와구치시”
  • Latvian: “Kavaguči”
  • Literary Chinese: “川口市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kavagučis”
  • Malay: “Kawaguchi”
  • Marathi: “कवागुची”
  • Mazanderani: “کاواگوچی، سایتاما”
  • Mazanderani: “کاواگوچی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kawaguti-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Кавагүчи”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kawaguchi”
  • Norwegian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Persian: “کاواگوچی، سایتاما”
  • Persian: “کاواگوچی”
  • Piemontese: “Kawaguchi”
  • Polish: “Kawaguchi”
  • Portuguese: “Kawaguchi”
  • Romanian: “Kawaguchi, Saitama”
  • Romanian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Russian: “Кавагути”
  • Serbian: “Кавагучи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kabaguči”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kavaguchi, Saitama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kavaguchi”
  • Silesian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Sinhala: “කවගුචි”
  • Slovenian: “Kavaguči”
  • Slovenian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Spanish: “Kawaguchi”
  • Swedish: “Kawaguchi”
  • Tagalog: “Kawagutsi, Saitama”
  • Tagalog: “Kawagutsi”
  • Tajik: “Кауагучи”
  • Tamil: “கவாகுச்சி”
  • Tatar: “Кавагути”
  • Tatar: “Кавагучи”
  • Telugu: “కవాగుచి”
  • Thai: “คะวะงุชิ”
  • Thai: “คาวางูจิ”
  • Turkish: “Kawaguchi”
  • Ukrainian: “Каваґуті”
  • Ukrainian: “Каваґучі”
  • Urdu: “کاواگوچی، سائیتاما”
  • Urdu: “کاواگوچی”
  • Venetian: “Kawaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Kawaguchi, Saitama”
  • Vietnamese: “Kawaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kawaguchi, Saitama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kawaguchi”
  • Yue Chinese: “川口”

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