Kitakyushu

Kitakyūshū is a large city in Fukuoka prefecture on the island of , . Kokura, the heart of Kitakyushu, is an ancient feudal castle town guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki.
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  • Type: City with 939,000 residents
  • Description: city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Bắc Cửu Châu thị”, “Kita-kyushu”, “Kitakiuschu”, “Kitakiušiu”, “Kitakjusu”, “Kitakyu shu”, “Kitakyu shu-”, “Kitakyu-shu-”, “Kitakyushū”, “Kitakyūshū”, “Kitakyushu City”, “Kitakyūshū City”, “Kitakyushu-shi”, “Kokura”, “Кіта-Кюсю”, “קיטקיושו”, “كيتاكيوشو، فوكوكا”, “คิตะคิวชู”, “คิตะคีวชู”, “기타규슈 시”, “북구주”, “키타큐슈 시”, and “키타큐슈시”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Kokura Castle and Kokura Station.

Castle
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is a five-story castle in Kitakyushu, . A castle was first built at the current site in 1569. Construction of a more substantial replacement commenced in 1602 under the direction of daimyo Tadaoki Hosokawa.

Railway station
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in Kokurakita-ku is the main railway station in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is part of the JR Kyushu network and the San'yō Shinkansen stops here.

Museum
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The is a literature museum in Kitakyushu, . It is dedicated to Seichō Matsumoto, who spent the first half of his life in Kitakyusyu. The museum is located next to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kokurakita-ku and Kokuraminami-ku.

Suburb
is a ward of Kitakyūshū, , . It is the north part of what used to be City before the merger of five cities to create the new city of Kitakyūshū in 1963.

Suburb
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is a ward of Kitakyūshū, , . It is the southern part of what used to be Kokura City, which was merged into Kitakyūshū city when the latter was created out of the merger of five cities in 1963.

Suburb
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is a ward of Kitakyushu, , . It is the smallest ward of the city at 16.66 km2. The population was 64,330 as of the national census in 2000.

Kitakyushu

Latitude
33.883° or 33° 52′ 59″ north
Longitude
130.8749° or 130° 52′ 30″ east
Population
939,000
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
IATA airport code
KKJ
UN/LOCODE
JP KKJ
Open location code
8Q5GVVMF+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5410283420
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1859307
Wiki­data ID
Q188806
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kitakyushu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kitakyushu”
  • Arabic: “كيتاكيوشو”
  • Armenian: “Կիտակյուսյու”
  • Asturian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kitakyuşu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kitakyüşü”
  • Balinese: “Kitakyushu”
  • Bashkir: “Китакюсю”
  • Basque: “Kitakyushu”
  • Basque: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Belarusian: “Кітакюсю”
  • Bengali: “কিটাকিউশু”
  • Bengali: “কিতাকিয়ুশু”
  • Breton: “Kitakyushu”
  • Bulgarian: “Китакюшу”
  • Catalan: “Kita-Kyūshū”
  • Catalan: “Kitakyushu”
  • Catalan: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Cebuano: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Chechen: “Китакюсю”
  • Chinese: “北九州市”
  • Croatian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Czech: “Kitakjúšú”
  • Danish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Danish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Dutch: “Kitakyushu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيتاكيوشو”
  • Esperanto: “Kitakjuŝo”
  • Esperanto: “Kitakjuŝu”
  • Estonian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Faroese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Finnish: “Kita-Kyūshū”
  • Finnish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • French: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Galician: “Kitakyushu”
  • Galician: “Kitakyūshū”
  • German: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Greek: “Κιτακιούσου”
  • Gujarati: “કીટાક્યુશુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Hebrew: “קיטאקיושו”
  • Hindi: “किताक्यूशू”
  • Hungarian: “Kitakjúsú”
  • Indonesian: “Kitakyushu, Fukuoka”
  • Indonesian: “Kitakyushu”
  • Indonesian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Interlingue: “Kitakyushu”
  • Irish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Italian: “Kitakyushu”
  • Italian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Japanese: “Kitakyūshū-shi”
  • Japanese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Japanese: “きたきゅうしゅうし”
  • Japanese: “北九州”
  • Japanese: “北九州市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಟಕುಶು”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಟಾ - ಕಿಯೂಷೂ”
  • Kikuyu: “Kitakyushu”
  • Kirghiz: “Китакюшю”
  • Korean: “기따규슈 시”
  • Korean: “기타큐슈 시”
  • Korean: “기타큐슈시”
  • Latvian: “Kitakjusju”
  • Literary Chinese: “北九州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kitakiūšiū”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Malagasy: “Kitakyushu”
  • Malay: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Maltese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Marathi: “कीटकयुशु”
  • Mazanderani: “کیتاکیوشو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-kiú-chiu-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Китакюшю”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kitakyushu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Norwegian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kita-Kyushu”
  • Ossetian: “Китакюсю”
  • Persian: “کیتاکیوشو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Persian: “کیتاکیوشو”
  • Piemontese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Polish: “Kitakiusiu”
  • Polish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Portuguese: “Kitakyushu”
  • Quechua: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Romanian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Russian: “Китакюсю”
  • Sardinian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Scots: “Kitakyushu”
  • Serbian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Serbian: “Китакјушу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakjūshū”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Silesian: “Kitakiusiu”
  • Sinhala: “කිටාකයුෂු”
  • Slovak: “Kitakjúšú”
  • Slovenian: “Kitakjušu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیتاکیوشو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Sundanese: “Kitakyushu”
  • Swedish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Tagalog: “Kitakyushu”
  • Tagalog: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Tajik: “Kitakjuşu”
  • Tajik: “Китакюшу”
  • Tamil: “கிடாகியுஷு”
  • Tatar: “Китакүчү”
  • Tatar: “Китакюсю”
  • Telugu: “కిటిక్యూశు”
  • Thai: “คิตะกีวชู”
  • Thai: “คิตากีวชู”
  • Tumbuka: “Kitakyushu”
  • Turkish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Turkish: “Kitakyuşu”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіта-Кюшю”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітакюсю”
  • Urdu: “کیتاکیوشو”
  • Uzbek: “Kitakyusyu”
  • Venetian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kitakyūshū”
  • Welsh: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیتاکیوشو”
  • Wu Chinese: “北九州市”
  • Yue Chinese: “北九州市”
  • “北九州市”

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