Kofu
Kōfu is the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. 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.
- Type: City with 193,000 residents
- Description: city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Kōfu”, “Kofu City”, “Kofu Yamanashi”, “Kōfu Yamanashi”, “Kofu-chhī”, “Kōfu-chhī”, “Kofu-shi”, “Kōfushi”, “Kōhu”, “Kohu-chhī”, “Kopu”, “Кофу, Яманаси”, “고후”, and “甲斐府中”
- Neighbors: Hokuto, Minobu, and Yamanashi
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kōfu Station and Zenkoji.
Kōfu Station
Railway station
Takeda Shrine
Shinto shrine
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Showa.
Kofu
- Categories: special city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, inland city, city with public health center, core city of Japan, city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Yamanashi, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.6652° or 35° 39′ 55″ north
Longitude
138.571° or 138° 34′ 16″ east
Population
193,000
Elevation
275 metres (902 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP KUF
Open location code
8Q7WMH8C+3C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Balinese: “Kōfu”
- Basque: “Kōfu”
- Belarusian: “Кофу”
- Bengali: “কুফো”
- Bulgarian: “Кофу”
- Catalan: “Kōfu”
- Cebuano: “Kōfu-shi (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Kōfu-shi”
- Chechen: “Кофу (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Кофу”
- Chinese: “甲府市”
- Czech: “Kófu”
- Danish: “Kofu”
- Dutch: “Kofu”
- Dutch: “Kōfu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوفو”
- Esperanto: “Kofu”
- Estonian: “Kōfu”
- Finnish: “Kōfu”
- French: “Kōfu”
- Galician: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
- Galician: “Kōfu”
- Georgian: “კოფუ”
- German: “Kōfu”
- Greek: “Κόφου”
- Gujarati: “કોફુ”
- Hebrew: “קופו”
- Hindi: “कोफू”
- Hungarian: “Kófu”
- Indonesian: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
- Indonesian: “Kōfu”
- Irish: “Kōfu”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಫು”
- Korean: “고후 시”
- Korean: “고후시”
- Latvian: “Kofu”
- Literary Chinese: “甲府市”
- Lithuanian: “Kofu”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kōfu”
- Malagasy: “Kōfu”
- Malay: “Kofu”
- Maltese: “Kōfu”
- Marathi: “कोफू”
- Mazanderani: “کوفو، یاماناشی”
- 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”
- Sardinian: “Kōfu”
- Scots: “Kōfu”
- Serbian: “Kofu”
- Serbian: “Кофу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kofu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kōfu”
- Silesian: “Kōfu”
- Sinhala: “කොෆු”
- Slovenian: “Kōfu”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوفو، یاماناشی”
- Spanish: “Kofu”
- Spanish: “Kōfu”
- Sundanese: “Kofu, Yamanashi”
- Sundanese: “Kofu”
- Swahili: “Kofu, Yamanashi”
- Swahili: “Kofu”
- Swedish: “Kofu”
- Swedish: “Kōfu”
- Tagalog: “Kōfu, Yamanashi”
- Tagalog: “Kōfu”
- 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): “Kōfu”
- Wu Chinese: “甲府市”
- Yue Chinese: “甲府”
- “Kōfu-shi”
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