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Kure

Kure

Kure is a port city in Hiroshima prefecture, . It is the third largest city in the prefecture by population, after Hiroshima and . Kure also administers a number of islands in the , including .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Yamato Museum and JMSDF Kure Museum.

Museum
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The is the nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum in Kure, , Japan.

Museum
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The Japan Maritime Self Defence Force Kure Museum is a Japanese military museum located in Kure, Hiroshima. It is also known as the "Iron Whale Museum" after its main exhibit, JMSDF's diesel-electric submarine .

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Akishio is a retired Japanese diesel-electric Yūshio-class submarine. She was laid down in 1983, launched in 1985, commissioned in 1986, and served until 2004.

Kure

Latitude
34.2484° or 34° 14′ 54″ north
Longitude
132.5653° or 132° 33′ 55″ east
Population
215,000
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KRE
Open location code
8Q6J6HX8+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 191581255
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1858296
Wiki­data ID
Q223439
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kure” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كورشي، هیروشیما”
  • Arabic: “كورشي”
  • Armenian: “Կուրե”
  • Asturian: “Kure”
  • Basque: “Kure”
  • Bengali: “কোরে”
  • Bulgarian: “Куре”
  • Catalan: “Kure”
  • Cebuano: “Kure”
  • Chechen: “Куре (Япон)”
  • Chechen: “Куре”
  • Chinese: “Kure-chhī”
  • Chinese: “吳市”
  • Chinese: “吴市”
  • Chinese: “呉市”
  • Czech: “Kure”
  • Danish: “Kure”
  • Dutch: “Kure”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوروه, هيروشيما”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوروه”
  • Esperanto: “Kure”
  • Estonian: “Kure”
  • Finnish: “Kure”
  • French: “Kure”
  • Galician: “Kure”
  • Georgian: “კურე”
  • German: “Kure”
  • Greek: “Κούρε”
  • Gujarati: “કુરે”
  • Hebrew: “קורה”
  • Hindi: “कुरे”
  • Hungarian: “Kure”
  • Indonesian: “Kure, Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Kure”
  • Irish: “Kure”
  • Italian: “Kure”
  • Japanese: “Kure”
  • Japanese: “くれし”
  • Japanese: “呉”
  • Japanese: “呉市”
  • Kannada: “ಕುರೆ”
  • Korean: “구레 시”
  • Korean: “구레”
  • Korean: “구레시”
  • Latvian: “Kure”
  • Literary Chinese: “吳市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kurė”
  • Malagasy: “Kure”
  • Malay: “Kure”
  • Marathi: “कुरे”
  • Mazanderani: “کوره، هیروشیما”
  • Mazanderani: “کوره”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kure-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kure”
  • Norwegian: “Kure”
  • Persian: “کوره، هیروشیما”
  • Persian: “کوره”
  • Polish: “Kure”
  • Portuguese: “Kure”
  • Romanian: “Kure”
  • Russian: “Куре”
  • Russian: “Курэ”
  • Serbian: “Couret”
  • Serbian: “Kure”
  • Serbian: “Куре”
  • Serbian: “呉市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kure”
  • Sinhala: “කුරේ”
  • Slovak: “Kure”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوره، هیروشیما”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوره”
  • Spanish: “Kure Hiroshima”
  • Spanish: “Kure”
  • Swedish: “Kure”
  • Tagalog: “City of Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Kure City”
  • Tagalog: “Kure, Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Siudad Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Siudad ng Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Siyudad ng Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Syudad Kure”
  • Tagalog: “Syudad ng Kure”
  • Tajik: “Kure”
  • Tajik: “Куре”
  • Tamil: “குரே”
  • Tatar: “Куре”
  • Telugu: “కురే”
  • Thai: “คุเระ”
  • Thai: “คูเระ”
  • Tumbuka: “Kure”
  • Turkish: “Kure”
  • Ukrainian: “Куре”
  • Urdu: “کورے، ہیروشیما”
  • Urdu: “کورے”
  • Uzbek: “Kure”
  • Venetian: “Kure”
  • Vietnamese: “Kure, Hiroshima”
  • Vietnamese: “Kure”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kure, Hiroshima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kure”
  • Yue Chinese: “吳市”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Kure”. Photo: Fuji-s, CC BY-SA 3.0.