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Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 and has a geographic area of 7,409 square kilometres.
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is the capital of prefecture on the island of , . It is notable for the impressive Castle.

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, in 's Kumamoto prefecture, is an active volcano that has one of the largest calderas in the world.

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is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, . It is on the west coast of Kyūshū and faces islands. was established as a village in 1889, re-designated as a town in 1912 and grew into a city in 1949.

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is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, . As of 1 August 2024, the city had an estimated population of 120,389 in 57,953 households, and a population density of 300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 681.29 km2.

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is a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2024, the city had an estimated population of 48,181 in 21996 households, and a population density of 160 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 299.69 km2.

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is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, . As of 31 July 2024, the city had an estimated population of 62,784 in 28553 households, and a population density of 462 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 152.60 km2.

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is the southernmost city of Kumamoto prefecture, . It is famous for its river fog from late autumn to early spring, kuma shochu spirits, and ayu or sweetfish.

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is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, . As of 31 July 2024, the city had an estimated population of 36,149 in 16127 households, and a population density of 490 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 74.30 km2.

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is a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, . As of 1 September 2024, the city had an estimated population of 56,491 in 25302 households, and a population density of 300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 188.67 km2.

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is a city and chain of islands off the west coast of in . The southernmost part of the islands belongs to .

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is a town in the Kumamoto Prefecture on the island . It is near the city of .

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is a town located in , Kumamoto Prefecture, . As of 31 August 2024, the town had an estimated population of 8,361 in 3323 households, and a population density of 58 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 144.00 km2.

Kumamoto

Latitude of center
32.645° or 32° 38′ 42″ north
Longitude of center
130.6341° or 130° 38′ 3″ east
Population
1,750,000
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 739281222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1858419
Wiki­data ID
Q130308
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kumamoto” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Kumamoto”
  • Afrikaans: “Kumamoto Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Kumamoto-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “كوماموتو”
  • Arabic: “محافظة كوماماتو”
  • Arabic: “محافظة كوماموتو”
  • Armenian: “Կումամոտո (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Կումամոտո”
  • Asturian: “Kumamoto (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Kumamoto (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Kumamoto”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Kumamoto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kumamoto prefekturası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kumamoto”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Kumamoto”
  • Bashkir: “Кумамото (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Кумамото”
  • Basque: “Kumamoto”
  • Belarusian: “Кумамота (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Кумамота”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Кумамота”
  • Bengali: “কুমামোতো প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Кумамото”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Kumamoto”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Kumamoto”
  • Cebuano: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کومامۆتۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “کومامۆتۆ”
  • Chechen: “Кумамото (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Кумамото”
  • Chinese: “Kumamoto-koān”
  • Chinese: “熊本”
  • Chinese: “熊本县”
  • Chinese: “熊本縣”
  • Croatian: “Kumamoto”
  • Czech: “prefektura Kumamoto”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Kumamoto”
  • Danish: “Kumamoto-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Kumamoto”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Kumamoto”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Kumamoto”
  • Esperanto: “JP-43”
  • Esperanto: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • Esperanto: “Kumamoto”
  • Esperanto: “prefektejo Kumamoto (ĝis 2008)”
  • Estonian: “Kumamoto prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Kumamoton prefektuuri”
  • French: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • French: “Kumamoto”
  • French: “préfecture de Kumamoto”
  • French: “Préfecture de Kumamoto”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Kumamoto”
  • Georgian: “კუმამოტოს პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-43”
  • German: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • German: “Kumamoto”
  • German: “Präfektur Kumamoto”
  • Greek: “Κουμαμότο”
  • Gujarati: “કુમામોટો પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kumamoto-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yùng-pún-yen”
  • Hebrew: “קוממוטו”
  • Hindi: “कुमामोतो प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Kumamoto prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Kumamoto”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Kumamoto”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Kumamoto”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Kumamoto”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Kumamoto”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Kumamoto”
  • Japanese: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • Japanese: “くまもと”
  • Japanese: “クマモト”
  • Japanese: “くまもとけん”
  • Japanese: “クマモトケン”
  • Japanese: “熊本”
  • Japanese: “熊本県”
  • Japanese: “隈本”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಮಾಮೊಟೊ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តឃឹម៉ាម៉ុតុ”
  • Korean: “구마모또현”
  • Korean: “구마모토 현”
  • Korean: “구마모토현”
  • Latvian: “Kumamoto prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “熊本縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Kumamoto prefektūra”
  • Lombard: “Prefetura de Kumamoto”
  • Macedonian: “Кумамото”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kumamoto”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯨꯃꯥꯃꯣꯇꯣ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “कुमामोतो प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “कुमामोतो”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kumamoto-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kumamoto Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kumamoto-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kumamoto-kōan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Kumamoto”
  • Northern Sami: “Kumamoto prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumamoto prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kumamoto prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Kumamoto”
  • Ossetian: “Кумамото (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Кумамото”
  • Pampanga: “Kumamoto Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Kumamoto”
  • Persian: “استان كوماموتو”
  • Persian: “استان کوماموتو”
  • Polish: “Kumamoto”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Kumamoto”
  • Portuguese: “Kumamoto”
  • Romanian: “Kumamoto”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Kumamoto”
  • Russian: “Кумамото”
  • Scots: “Kumamoto Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Kumamoto”
  • Serbian: “Кумамото”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Кумамото”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kumamoto”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kumamoto”
  • Sinhala: “කුමමොටෝ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Kumamoto”
  • Slovenian: “prefektura Kumamoto”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Kumamoto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوماموتو اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Kumamoto”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Kumamoto”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Kumamoto”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura Kumamoto”
  • Sundanese: “Kumamoto Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kumamoto”
  • Swedish: “Kumamoto prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Kumamoto”
  • Tagalog: “Kumamoto Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Kumamoto”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Kumamoto”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Kumamoto”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Кумамото”
  • Tamil: “குமமோடோ ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Кумамото (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Кумамото”
  • Telugu: “కుమామోటో ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดคูมาโมโตะ”
  • Turkish: “Kumamoto prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Kumamoto”
  • Ukrainian: “Кумамото”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Кумамото”
  • Urdu: “کوماموتو پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Hùng Bản huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “Kumamoto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kumamoto Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kumamoto”
  • Welsh: “Kumamoto-ken”
  • Welsh: “Kumamoto”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع کوماموٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “熊本县”
  • Yakut: “Кумамото префектурата”
  • Yue Chinese: “熊本”
  • Yue Chinese: “熊本縣”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Kumamoto”. Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.