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Kochi

Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of . Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 669,516 and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2.
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Kōchi is the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture located on the island of in Japan. With over 40% of the prefectural population, Kōchi is the main commercial and industrial centre and the "primate city" of the prefecture.

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is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, . As of 31 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 20‚429 in 10672 households and a population density of 150 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 135.44 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, . As of 31 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 46‚459 in 22499 households and a population density of 370 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 125.30 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, . As of 31 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 19,292 in 9,966 households, and a population density of 67 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 286.20 square kilometres.

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Shimanto is a city in southwestern Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 32,593 in 16635 households, and a population density of 52 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 632.29 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, . As of 31 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 16,370 in 8076 households and a population density of 52 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 317.21 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, . As of 1 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 25,562 in 13212 households and a population density of 48 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 537.86 square kilometres.

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is a headland at the southernmost tip of the Japanese island of , in the city of , Kōchi Prefecture. The promontory extends into the Pacific Ocean and is situated within Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park.

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is a small town on the southern coast of the island of , . Part of Shimanto Town since 2006.

Kochi

Latitude of center
33.5833° or 33° 35′ north
Longitude of center
133.3667° or 133° 22′ east
Population
758,000
Elevation
150 metres (492 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1859133
Wiki­data ID
Q134093
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kochi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Kochi”
  • Afrikaans: “Kochi Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Kochi-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “كوتشي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة كوتشي”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Kōchi”
  • Armenian: “Կոտի (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Կոտի”
  • Asturian: “Kōchi (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Kōchi (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Kōchi”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Kōchi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koçi prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Kōchi”
  • Bashkir: “Коти (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Коти”
  • Basque: “Kōchi”
  • Belarusian: “Коты (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Коты”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Коты”
  • Bengali: “কোওচি প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Кочи”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Kochi”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Kōchi”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Kōchi”
  • Cebuano: “Kōchi-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کۆچی”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆچی”
  • Chechen: “Коти (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Коти”
  • Chinese: “Kôti-koān”
  • Chinese: “高知县”
  • Chinese: “高知縣”
  • Croatian: “Kochi”
  • Croatian: “Kōchi”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Kóči”
  • Danish: “Kochi-præfekturet”
  • Danish: “Kōchi-præfekturet”
  • Danish: “Kouchi-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Kochi Prefectuuur”
  • Dutch: “Kochi”
  • Dutch: “Kōchi”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Koĉi”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Koĉo”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Koĉo”
  • Esperanto: “Kōchi”
  • Esperanto: “Koĉi”
  • Estonian: “Kochi prefektuur”
  • Estonian: “Kōchi prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Kochin prefektuuri”
  • Finnish: “Kōchin prefektuuri”
  • French: “Kochi”
  • French: “Kōchi”
  • French: “préfecture de Kōchi”
  • French: “Préfecture de Kōchi”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Kochi”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Kōchi”
  • Georgian: “კოტის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-39”
  • German: “Kōchi”
  • German: “Präfektur Kochi”
  • German: “Präfektur Kōchi”
  • Greek: “Νομός Κότσι”
  • Gujarati: “કોચી પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kô-tî-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kōchi-yen”
  • Hebrew: “קוצ’י”
  • Hindi: “कोच्ची प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Kócsi prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Kōchi”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Kochi”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Kōchi”
  • Indonesian: “Kochi”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Kochi”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Kōchi”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Kōchi”
  • Italian: “Kochi”
  • Italian: “Kōchi”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Kochi”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Kōchi”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Kōchi”
  • Japanese: “Kōchi Ken”
  • Japanese: “こうち”
  • Japanese: “コウチ”
  • Japanese: “こうちけん”
  • Japanese: “コウチケン”
  • Japanese: “高智県”
  • Japanese: “高知”
  • Japanese: “高知県”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಚಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Khmer: “ខូឈិ(ខេត្ត)”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តខូឈិ”
  • Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត ខូឈិ”
  • Korean: “고지 현”
  • Korean: “고지현”
  • Korean: “고찌현”
  • Korean: “고치 현”
  • Korean: “고치”
  • Korean: “고치현”
  • Latvian: “Koči prefektūra”
  • Latvian: “Kōči prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “高知縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Kochi prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Koči prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Kočio prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Кочи”
  • Malay: “Kochi”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kochi”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kōchi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯣꯆꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “कोची प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “कोची”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kōchi-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kōchi-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Koti Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kôti Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Koti-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Koti-kōan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kôti-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kôti-kōan”
  • Mongolian: “Кочи-кэн”
  • Mongolian: “Кочи”
  • Nepali: “कोची”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kōchi-ken”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Kōchi”
  • Northern Sami: “Kōchi prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kochi prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kōchi prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kochi prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Kōchi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Kochi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Kōchi”
  • Ossetian: “Коти (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Коти”
  • Pampanga: “Kōchi Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Kōchi”
  • Persian: “استان کوچی”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Kochi”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Kōchi”
  • Portuguese: “Kochi”
  • Portuguese: “Kōchi”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Kochi”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Kōchi”
  • Russian: “Коти”
  • Scots: “Kochi Prefectur”
  • Scots: “Kōchi Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Koči”
  • Serbian: “Кочи”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Кочи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kochi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kōchi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Koči”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kōchi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Koči”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوچي پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “කොචි ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Kóči”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Koči”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوچی اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Kochi Japon”
  • Spanish: “Kochi Japón”
  • Spanish: “Kōchi Japon”
  • Spanish: “Kōchi Japón”
  • Spanish: “Kochi”
  • Spanish: “Kōchi”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Kochi”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Kōchi”
  • Sundanese: “Kōchi Prefecture”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Kōchi”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kochi”
  • Swedish: “Kochi prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Kōchi prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Kochi”
  • Tagalog: “Kochi Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Kōchi Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Kochi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Kōchi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Kotsi”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Koti”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Коти”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Кочи”
  • Tamil: “கொச்சி ப்ரெபெக்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Коти (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Коти”
  • Telugu: “కోచి ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโคจิ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโคชิ”
  • Turkish: “Kōchi prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Kōchi”
  • Ukrainian: “Коті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Коті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Кочі”
  • Urdu: “کوچی پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Kochi”
  • Vietnamese: “Kōchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Kōchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kōchi Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kochi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kōchi”
  • Welsh: “Kōchi”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع کوچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “高知县”
  • Yue Chinese: “高知”
  • Yue Chinese: “高知縣”
  • “Kōchi-ken”
  • “こうちけん”
  • “高知県”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kochi”. Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.