Kure
Kure is a port city in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. It is the third largest city in the prefecture by population, after Hiroshima and Fukuyama. Kure also administers a number of islands in the Seto Inland Sea, including Ōsakishimojima.
- Type: City with 215,000 residents
- Description: city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “City of Kure”, “Couret”, “Kure City”, “Kure Hiroshima”, “Kure, Hiroshima”, “Lungsod Kure”, “Lungsod ng Kure”, “Lunsod Kure”, “Lunsod ng Kure”, “Siudad Kure”, “Siudad ng Kure”, “Siyudad Kure”, “Siyudad ng Kure”, “Syudad Kure”, “Syudad ng Kure”, “Курэ”, and “구레”
- Neighbors: Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Imabari, and Matsuyama
Places of Interest
Highlights: Yamato Museum and JMSDF Kure Museum.
Yamato Museum
Museum
The Yamato Museum is the nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.
Kure
- Categories: special city of Japan, big city, city of Japan, city with public health center, core city of Japan, military town, port city, and locality
- Location: Kure, Hiroshima, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2484° or 34° 14′ 54″ north
Longitude
132.5653° or 132° 33′ 55″ east
Population
215,000
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP KRE
Open location code
8Q6J6HX8+93
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Balinese: “Kure, Hiroshima”
- Basque: “Kure”
- Bengali: “কোরে”
- Bulgarian: “Куре”
- Catalan: “Kure”
- Cebuano: “Kure”
- Chechen: “Куре (Япон)”
- Chechen: “Куре”
- Chinese: “吳市”
- Chinese: “吴市”
- 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-shi”
- Japanese: “くれし”
- Japanese: “呉”
- Japanese: “呉市”
- Kannada: “ಕುರೆ”
- Korean: “구레 시”
- 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”
- Serbian: “Kure”
- Serbian: “Куре”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kure”
- Sinhala: “කුරේ”
- Slovak: “Kure”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوره، هیروشیما”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوره”
- Spanish: “Kure”
- Swedish: “Kure”
- Tagalog: “Kure, Hiroshima”
- Tagalog: “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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