Kurume
Kurume is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 295,367 in 137,140 households, and a population density of 1309 people per km². The total area of the city is 229.96 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kurume and Kurume Castle Ruins.
Kurume
Railway station
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kurume Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.
Kurume Castle Ruins
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kurume Castle was a castle structure in Kurume, Japan. Kurume Castle was built by the ninth son of Mōri Motonari, Kobayakawa Hidekane in 1587. Kurume castle is now only ruins, with some stone walls and water moat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miyaki and Tosu.
Miyaki
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Miyaki is a town in Miyaki District, Saga Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 April 2024, the town had an estimated population of 25,745 in 10599 households, and a population density of 500 people per km2.
Tosu
Photo: Peka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tosu is a city located in the eastern part of Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. As of 30 April 2024, the city had an estimated population of 74,334 in 33597 households, and a population density of 1000 persons per km2.
Kurume
- Categories: core city of Japan, big city, second-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.3197° or 33° 19′ 11″ northLongitude
130.5081° or 130° 30′ 29″ eastPopulation
303,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP KEXOpen location code
8Q5G8G95+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3056729963OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kurume” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كورومي، فوكوكا”
- Arabic: “كورومي”
- Armenian: “Կուրումե”
- Asturian: “Kurume”
- Azerbaijani: “Kurume”
- Basque: “Kurume”
- Belarusian: “Курумэ”
- Bengali: “কুরুমে”
- Bulgarian: “Куруме”
- Catalan: “Kurume”
- Cebuano: “Kurume Shi”
- Cebuano: “Kurume”
- Chechen: “Куруме”
- Chinese: “Kurume-chhī”
- Chinese: “久留米”
- Chinese: “久留米市”
- Czech: “Kurume”
- Danish: “Kurume”
- Dutch: “Kurume”
- Esperanto: “Kurume”
- Estonian: “Kurume”
- Finnish: “Kurume”
- French: “Kurume”
- Galician: “Kurume”
- Georgian: “კურუმე”
- German: “Kurume”
- Greek: “Κουρούμα”
- Gujarati: “કુરુમે”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kurume, Fukuoka”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kurume”
- Hebrew: “קורומה”
- Hindi: “कुरुमे”
- Hungarian: “Kurume”
- Indonesian: “Kurume, Fukuoka”
- Indonesian: “Kurume”
- Irish: “Kurume”
- Italian: “Kurume”
- Japanese: “Kurume-shi”
- Japanese: “くるめし”
- Japanese: “久留米”
- Japanese: “久留米市”
- Kannada: “ಕುರುಮ್”
- Korean: “구루메 시”
- Korean: “구루메”
- Korean: “구루메시”
- Korean: “쿠루메”
- Latvian: “Kurume”
- Literary Chinese: “久留米市”
- Lithuanian: “Kurumė”
- Malagasy: “Kurume”
- Malay: “Kurume, Fukuoka”
- Malay: “Kurume”
- Marathi: “कुरुम”
- Mazanderani: “کورومه، فوکوئوکا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kurume-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurume”
- Norwegian: “Kurume”
- Persian: “کورومه، فوکوئوکا”
- Polish: “Kurume”
- Portuguese: “Kurume”
- Romanian: “Kurume”
- Russian: “Куруме”
- Russian: “Курумэ”
- Scots: “Kurume”
- Serbian: “Kurume”
- Serbian: “Куруме”
- Serbian: “久留米市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kurume”
- Silesian: “Kurume”
- Sinhala: “කුරුමේ”
- South Azerbaijani: “کورومه، فوکوئوکا”
- Spanish: “Kurume Fukuoka”
- Spanish: “Kurume”
- Swedish: “Kurume”
- Tagalog: “Kurume”
- Tajik: “Kurume”
- Tajik: “Куруме”
- Tamil: “குருமே”
- Tatar: “Куруме”
- Telugu: “కురుమే”
- Thai: “คุรุเมะ”
- Thai: “คูรูเมะ”
- Turkish: “Kurume”
- Ukrainian: “Куруме”
- Urdu: “کورومی، فوکوکا”
- Venetian: “Kurume”
- Vietnamese: “Kurume”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kurume, Fukuoka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kurume”
- Wu Chinese: “久留米市”
- Yue Chinese: “久留米”
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