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Kofu

Kōfu is the capital city of , . As of 1 April 2019, the city had an estimated population of 187,985 in 90,924 households, and a population density of 880 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 212.41 square kilometres.
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  • Type: City with 193,000 residents
  • Description: city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kōfu”, “Kofu City”, “Kofu-shi”, “Kōfu-shi”, “Kōfushi”, and “Kōhu”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kōfu Station and Takeda Shrine.

Railway station
Photo: 江戸村のとくぞう, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station in the city of Kōfu, , . It is managed by the East Japan Railway Company.

Shinto shrine
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is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Kōfu, , , dedicated to the kami of Takeda Shingen. The shrine's annual celebration is on April 12, Shingen's death anniversary.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a train station on the Minobu Line of the Central Japan Railway Company in the city of Kōfu, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shōwa.

Town
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is a town located in , . As of 31 May 2019, the town had an estimated population of 20,338 in 8768 households and a population density of 2200 per km2. The total area of the town is 9.08 square kilometres.

Kofu

Latitude
35.6652° or 35° 39′ 55″ north
Longitude
138.571° or 138° 34′ 16″ east
Population
193,000
Elevation
275 metres (902 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KUF
Open location code
8Q7WMH8C+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1808192270
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1859100
Wiki­data ID
Q201932
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kofu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوفو، ياماناشي”
  • Arabic: “كوفو”
  • Armenian: “Կոֆու”
  • Asturian: “Kōfu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kofu”
  • Basque: “Kōfu”
  • Belarusian: “Кофу”
  • Bengali: “কুফো”
  • Bulgarian: “Кофу”
  • Catalan: “Kōfu”
  • Cebuano: “Kōfu-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Kōfu-shi”
  • Chechen: “Кофу (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Кофу”
  • Chinese: “Kôhu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “甲府”
  • Chinese: “甲府市”
  • Czech: “Kófu”
  • Danish: “Kofu”
  • Dutch: “Kofu”
  • Dutch: “Kōfu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوفو”
  • Esperanto: “Kofu”
  • Esperanto: “Kōfu”
  • Estonian: “Kofu”
  • Estonian: “Kōfu”
  • Finnish: “Kofu”
  • Finnish: “Kōfu”
  • French: “Kofu”
  • French: “Kôfu”
  • French: “Kōfu”
  • Galician: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
  • Galician: “Kōfu”
  • Georgian: “კოფუ”
  • German: “Kofu”
  • German: “Kōfu”
  • Greek: “Κόφου”
  • Gujarati: “કોફુ”
  • Hebrew: “קופו”
  • Hindi: “कोफू”
  • Hungarian: “Kófu”
  • Indonesian: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
  • Indonesian: “Kōfu”
  • Irish: “Kōfu”
  • Italian: “Kofu”
  • Italian: “Kōfu”
  • Japanese: “Kōfu-shi”
  • Japanese: “こうふ”
  • Japanese: “コウフ”
  • Japanese: “こうふし”
  • Japanese: “コウフシ”
  • Japanese: “甲府”
  • Japanese: “甲府市”
  • Japanese: “甲斐府中”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಫು”
  • Korean: “고후 시”
  • Korean: “고후”
  • Korean: “고후시”
  • Latvian: “Kofu”
  • Literary Chinese: “甲府市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kofu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kōfu”
  • Malagasy: “Kōfu”
  • Malay: “Kofu”
  • Marathi: “कोफू”
  • Mazanderani: “کوفو، یاماناشی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kofu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kōfu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kohu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kôhu-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kōfu”
  • Norwegian: “Kōfu”
  • Persian: “کوفو، یاماناشی”
  • Persian: “کوفو”
  • Polish: “Kofu”
  • Polish: “Kōfu”
  • Portuguese: “Kofu”
  • Portuguese: “Kōfu”
  • Romanian: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
  • Romanian: “Kofu”
  • Russian: “Кофе”
  • Russian: “Кофу, Яманаси”
  • Russian: “Кофу”
  • Sardinian: “Kōfu”
  • Scots: “Kōfu”
  • Serbian: “Kofu”
  • Serbian: “Кофу”
  • Serbian: “甲府市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kofu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kōfu”
  • Silesian: “Kōfu”
  • Sinhala: “කොෆු”
  • Slovenian: “Kōfu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوفو، یاماناشی”
  • Spanish: “Kofu Yamanashi”
  • Spanish: “Kōfu Yamanashi”
  • Spanish: “Kofu”
  • Spanish: “Kōfu”
  • Sundanese: “Kofu, Yamanashi”
  • Sundanese: “Kofu”
  • Swahili: “Kofu, Yamanashi”
  • Swahili: “Kofu”
  • Swedish: “Kofu”
  • Swedish: “Kōfu”
  • Tagalog: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
  • Tagalog: “Kofu”
  • Tagalog: “Kōfu”
  • Tagalog: “Kopu”
  • Tajik: “Kofu”
  • Tajik: “Кофу”
  • Tamil: “கோபியூ”
  • Tatar: “Кофу”
  • Telugu: “కోఫు”
  • Thai: “โคฟุ”
  • Tumbuka: “Kōfu”
  • Turkish: “Kōfu”
  • Ukrainian: “Кофу”
  • Urdu: “کوفو، یاماناشی”
  • Venetian: “Kōfu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
  • Vietnamese: “Kōfu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kofu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kōfu”
  • Wu Chinese: “甲府市”
  • Yue Chinese: “甲府”
  • “Kōfu-shi”

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