Kushiro
Kushiro is the fourth largest city in Hokkaido and the largest city in Eastern Hokkaido. Despite its population and size, it is still quite rural, with a sparse public transportation system.
- Type: City with 165,000 residents
- Description: city in Hokkaidō, Japan
- Also known as: “Kushira”, “Kushiro Hokkaido”, “Kushiro Hokkaidō”, “쿠시로 시”, “쿠시로시”, “釧路区”, and “釧路町”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hokkaido Kushiro General Subprefectural Bereau and Kushiro Station.
Hokkaido Kushiro General Subprefectural Bereau
Government building
Kushiro Station
Railway station
Higashi-Kushiro Station
Railway station
Kushiro
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Eastern Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42.985° or 42° 59′ 6″ north
Longitude
144.382° or 144° 22′ 55″ east
Population
165,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
KUH
UN/LOCODE
JP KUH
Open location code
8RJ6X9MJ+XR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kushiro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوشيرو، هوكايدو”
- Arabic: “كوشيرو”
- Armenian: “Կուշիրո”
- Asturian: “Kushiro”
- Azerbaijani: “Kuşiro”
- Bashkir: “Кусиро”
- Basque: “Kushiro”
- Belarusian: “Кусіра”
- Bengali: “কুশিরো”
- Catalan: “Kushiro”
- Cebuano: “Kushiro”
- Chechen: “Кусиро”
- Chinese: “釧路市”
- Chinese: “钏路市”
- Czech: “Kuširo”
- Danish: “Kushiro”
- Dutch: “Kushiro”
- Esperanto: “Kuŝiro”
- Finnish: “Kushiro”
- French: “Kushiro”
- Galician: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
- Galician: “Kushiro”
- German: “Kushiro-shi”
- German: “Kushiro”
- Greek: “Κουσίρο”
- Gujarati: “કુશીરો”
- Hebrew: “קושירו”
- Hindi: “कुशीरो”
- Hungarian: “Kusiro”
- Ido: “Kushiro”
- Indonesian: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Kushiro”
- Irish: “Kushiro”
- Italian: “Kushiro”
- Japanese: “Kushiro-shi”
- Japanese: “くしろし”
- Japanese: “釧路”
- Japanese: “釧路市”
- Kannada: “ಕುಶಿರೊ”
- Korean: “구시로 시”
- Korean: “구시로시”
- Latvian: “Kušira”
- Literary Chinese: “釧路市”
- Lithuanian: “Kuširas”
- Malagasy: “Kushiro”
- Malay: “Kushiro”
- Marathi: “कुशीरो”
- Mazanderani: “کوشیرو، هوکایدو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kusiro-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kushiro”
- Norwegian: “Kushiro”
- Pampanga: “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
- Pampanga: “Kushiro”
- Persian: “کوشیرو، هوکایدو”
- Persian: “کوشیرو”
- Polish: “Kushiro”
- Portuguese: “Kushiro”
- Romanian: “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
- Romanian: “Kushiro”
- Russian: “Кусиро”
- Serbian: “Kuširo”
- Serbian: “Куширо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kushiro”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kuširo”
- Sinhala: “කුශිරෝ”
- Slovenian: “Kuširo”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوشیرو، هوکایدو”
- Spanish: “Kushiro”
- Swedish: “Kushiro”
- Tagalog: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
- Tagalog: “Kusyiro”
- Tajik: “Kuşiro”
- Tajik: “Куширо”
- Tamil: “குஷிரோ”
- Tatar: “Кусиро”
- Tatar: “Кучиро”
- Telugu: “టొకుషిమా లో”
- Thai: “คุชิโระ”
- Thai: “คูชิโระ”
- Tumbuka: “Kushiro”
- Turkish: “Kushiro”
- Ukrainian: “Кусіро”
- Ukrainian: “Кушіро”
- Urdu: “کوشیرو”
- Venetian: “Kushiro”
- Vietnamese: “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
- Vietnamese: “Kushiro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kushiro”
- Welsh: “Kushiro-shi”
- Wu Chinese: “钏路市”
- Yue Chinese: “釧路”
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