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Kitakyushu

Kitakyūshū is a large city in Fukuoka prefecture on the island of , . Together with it is part of the Kanmon Straits area. In terms of area it is the largest city in Kyushu, though Fukuoka has the bigger population.
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  • Type: City with 939,000 residents
  • Description: city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kitakyushu City”, “Kitakyūshū City”, “Kitakyushu-shi”, and “Kitakyūshū-shi”
  • Neighbors: and
Photo: Muyo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kokura Castle and Kokura Station.

Castle
Photo: G43, CC BY 3.0.
is a castle in Kitakyushu, . It was built by Hosokawa Tadaoki starting in 1602, with construction completed in 1608.

Railway station
Photo: z tanuki, CC BY 3.0.
in 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
Photo: Kugel, Public domain.
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
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
United Nations Location Code
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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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kitakyushu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kitakyushu”
  • Arabic: “كيتاكيوشو، فوكوكا”
  • 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: “Pak-kiú-chiu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “北九州市”
  • Croatian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Czech: “Kitakjúšú”
  • Danish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Danish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Dutch: “Kita-kyushu”
  • Dutch: “Kitakyushu”
  • Dutch: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيتاكيوشو”
  • Esperanto: “Kitakjuŝo”
  • Esperanto: “Kitakjuŝu”
  • Esperanto: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Estonian: “Kitakyushu”
  • Estonian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Faroese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Finnish: “Kita-Kyūshū”
  • Finnish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Finnish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • French: “Kitakyushu”
  • French: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Galician: “Kitakyushu”
  • Galician: “Kitakyūshū”
  • German: “Kitakiuschu”
  • German: “Kitakyushu”
  • German: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Greek: “Κιτακιούσου”
  • Gujarati: “કીટાક્યુશુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Hebrew: “קיטאקיושו”
  • Hebrew: “קיטקיושו”
  • Hindi: “किताक्यूशू”
  • Hungarian: “Kitakjúsú”
  • Indonesian: “Kitakyushu, Fukuoka”
  • Indonesian: “Kitakyushu”
  • Indonesian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Interlingue: “Kitakyushu”
  • Irish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Italian: “Kitakyushu”
  • Italian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Italian: “Kokura”
  • 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”
  • Kikuyu: “Kitakyushu”
  • Kirghiz: “Китакюшю”
  • Korean: “기따규슈 시”
  • Korean: “기타규슈 시”
  • Korean: “기타큐슈 시”
  • Korean: “기타큐슈시”
  • Korean: “북구주”
  • Korean: “키타큐슈 시”
  • Korean: “키타큐슈시”
  • Latvian: “Kitakjusju”
  • Latvian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Literary Chinese: “北九州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kitakiušiu”
  • Lithuanian: “Kitakiūšiū”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Malagasy: “Kitakyushu”
  • Malay: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Maltese: “Kitakyushu”
  • 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: “Kitakyushu”
  • Polish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Portuguese: “Kitakyushu”
  • Quechua: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Romanian: “Kitakyushu”
  • Romanian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Russian: “Китакюсю”
  • Sardinian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Scots: “Kitakyushu”
  • Serbian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Serbian: “Китакјушу”
  • Serbian: “北九州市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakjūshū”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakjusu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakjušu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Silesian: “Kitakiusiu”
  • Sinhala: “කිටාකයුෂු”
  • Slovak: “Kitakjúšú”
  • Slovenian: “Kitakjušu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیتاکیوشو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyu shu-”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyu shu”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyu-shu-”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyushū”
  • Spanish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Sundanese: “Kitakyushu”
  • Swedish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Swedish: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Tagalog: “Kitakyushu”
  • Tagalog: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Tagalog: “Kitakyusyu”
  • Tajik: “Kitakjuşu”
  • Tajik: “Китакюшу”
  • Tamil: “கிடாகியுஷு”
  • Tatar: “Китакүчү”
  • Tatar: “Китакюсю”
  • Telugu: “కిటిక్యూశు”
  • Thai: “คิตะกีวชู”
  • Thai: “คิตะคิวชู”
  • Thai: “คิตะคีวชู”
  • Thai: “คิตากีวชู”
  • Tumbuka: “Kitakyushu”
  • Turkish: “Kitakyushu”
  • Turkish: “Kitakyuşu”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіта-Кюсю”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіта-Кюшю”
  • Ukrainian: “Кітакюсю”
  • Urdu: “کیتاکیوشو”
  • Uzbek: “Kitakyusyu”
  • Venetian: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Cửu Châu thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitakyushu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kitakyushu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kitakyūshū”
  • Welsh: “Kitakyushu”
  • Welsh: “Kitakyūshū”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیتاکیوشو”
  • Wu Chinese: “北九州市”
  • Yue Chinese: “北九州市”
  • “Kitakyūshū-shi”

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