Kurume

Kurume is a city in , 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.
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  • Type: City with 303,000 residents
  • Description: city in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kurume Fukuoka”, “Kurume Shi”, “구루메”, and “쿠루메”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kurume and Kurume Castle Ruins.

Railway station
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Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of , Fukuoka, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.

Castle
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Kurume Castle was a castle structure in Kurume, . 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.

Buddhist temple
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is a Rinzai temple in Kurume, , . Its honorary sangō prefix is Kōnanzan. It is known as a representative training dojo temple of the school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Miyaki and Tosu.

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is a town in District, , 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.

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is a city located in the eastern part of on the island of , 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

Latitude
33.3197° or 33° 19′ 11″ north
Longitude
130.5081° or 130° 30′ 29″ east
Population
303,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KEX
Open location code
8Q5G8G95+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3056729963
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1858088
Wiki­data ID
Q320934
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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”
  • Chechen: “Куруме”
  • 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: “구루메시”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “کورومه”
  • Polish: “Kurume”
  • Portuguese: “Kurume”
  • Romanian: “Kurume”
  • Russian: “Куруме”
  • Scots: “Kurume”
  • Serbian: “Kurume”
  • Serbian: “Куруме”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kurume”
  • Silesian: “Kurume”
  • Sinhala: “කුරුමේ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کورومه، فوکوئوکا”
  • 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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