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Kyūshū is the southernmost of the four main islands of . The climate is slightly warmer and more tropical than Honshu, and the southern and eastern coasts are regularly battered by typhoons each year.
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Essential Destinations

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, officially City, is the capital and the largest city of on the island of Kyushu in . Founded by the Portuguese, the port of became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries.

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is the capital of prefecture and the largest city on the island of Kyushu. is a good starting point for first-time visitors to Japan.

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Kitakyūshū is a large city in Fukuoka prefecture on the island of Kyushu, . Together with it is part of the Kanmon Straits area. In terms of area it is the largest city in Kyushu, though Fukuoka has the bigger population.

Destinations to Discover

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Prefecture is the southernmost prefecture on the island of Kyushu, . Here you can find the majestic cedar forests of Yakushima, active volcanoes such as Sakurajima, abundant hot springs, samurai history, and rich nature.

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Prefecture is a small and rustic prefecture on the island of Kyushu in . It is famous for pottery and pre-historic village ruins.

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Prefecture is the most populous prefecture of Kyushu, with a population of over 5 million.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of located on the island of Kyūshū. Prefecture has a population of 1,683,115 and has a geographic area of 7,409 square kilometres.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of , mainly located on the island of Kyūshū, although it also includes a number of islands off Kyūshū's northwest coast - including Tsushima and Iki.

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Prefecture is in the southeastern part of the island of Kyushu with a low population density. Its capital of is centrally located on the coast of the Hyuga Sea.

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Ōita Prefecture is a prefecture of located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,081,646 and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 ).

Kyushu

  • Type: Region with 13,200,000 residents
  • Description: third largest island of Japan
  • Also known as: “Kiusiu”, “Kyûshû”, “Kyūshū”, “Kyushu Chiho”, “Kyūshū Chihō”, “Kyushu I.”, “Kyushu Is.”, “Kyushu Island”, and “Kyūshū-chihō”
  • Category: island
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
32.3355° or 32° 20′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
130.8508° or 130° 51′ 3″ east
Population
13,200,000
Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1857891
Wiki­data ID
Q13987
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kyushu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kyushu”
  • Afrikaans: “Kioesjoe”
  • Albanian: “Kyūshū”
  • Arabic: “كيوشو”
  • Armenian: “Կյուսյու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kyuşu”
  • Balinese: “Kyūshū”
  • Bashkir: “Кюсю”
  • Basque: “Kyushu”
  • Basque: “Kyūshū”
  • Belarusian: “Кюсю”
  • Bengali: “কিউশু”
  • Bosnian: “Kjušu”
  • Bosnian: “Kyushu”
  • Breton: “Kyūshū”
  • Bulgarian: “Кюшу”
  • Catalan: “Kyūshū”
  • Cebuano: “Kyushu”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیوشو”
  • Chinese: “Kyûsyû”
  • Chinese: “九州 (日本)”
  • Chinese: “九州”
  • Chinese: “九州島”
  • Chinese: “日本九州”
  • Chinese: “筑紫島”
  • Chinese: “筑紫洲”
  • Croatian: “Kyushu”
  • Czech: “Kjúšú”
  • Danish: “Kyushu”
  • Dutch: “Kyushu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيوشو”
  • Esperanto: “Kiuŝu”
  • Esperanto: “Kiuŝuo”
  • Esperanto: “Kjuŝuo”
  • Estonian: “Kyūshū”
  • Faroese: “Kyushu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kyushu”
  • Finnish: “Kyushu”
  • Finnish: “Kyūshū”
  • French: “Kyushu”
  • French: “Kyûshû”
  • French: “Kyūshū”
  • Galician: “Kyūshū”
  • Georgian: “კიუსიუ”
  • German: “Chinzei”
  • German: “Kiuschu”
  • German: “Kyukoku”
  • German: “Kyūkoku”
  • German: “Kyushu”
  • German: “Kyûshû”
  • German: “Kyūshū”
  • German: “neun Provinzen”
  • German: “Tsukushi-no-shima”
  • Greek: “Κιούσου”
  • Greek: “Κιοῡσοῡ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kiú-chiu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kyūshū”
  • Hausa: “Kyushu”
  • Hebrew: “קיושו”
  • Hindi: “क्यूशू”
  • Hungarian: “Kjúsú”
  • Hungarian: “Kyūshū”
  • Icelandic: “Kyushu”
  • Ido: “Kyushu”
  • Iloko: “Kyushu”
  • Indonesian: “Kyushu”
  • Indonesian: “Kyūshū”
  • Interlingue: “Kyūshū”
  • Irish: “Kyushu”
  • Irish: “Kyūshū”
  • Italian: “Kyūshū”
  • Japanese: “きゅうしゅうちほう”
  • Japanese: “キュウシュウチホウ”
  • Japanese: “九州”
  • Japanese: “九州地方”
  • Japanese: “九州島”
  • Japanese: “筑紫島”
  • Japanese: “筑紫洲”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kyūshū”
  • Kazakh: “Кюсю”
  • Khmer: “កោះឃ្យូស្ស៊ូ”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់ឃ្ជឺស្សឺ”
  • Kirghiz: “Кюсю”
  • Korean: “규슈”
  • Kurdish: “Kyushu”
  • Lao: “ຄີວຊູ”
  • Latin: “Xima Insula”
  • Latin: “Xima”
  • Latin: “Ximum”
  • Latvian: “Kjusju”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiūšiū”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kyūshū”
  • Macedonian: “Кјушу”
  • Malay: “Kyūshū”
  • Malayalam: “ക്യൂഷൂ”
  • Marathi: “क्युशू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiú-tsiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kyûsyû”
  • Newari: “क्युशु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kyūshū”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyushu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyushu”
  • Norwegian: “Kyushu”
  • Novial: “Kyushu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kyūshū”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kyūscū”
  • Ossetian: “Кюсю”
  • Pampanga: “Kyūshū”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਊਸ਼ੂ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Persian: “کیوشو”
  • Polish: “Kiusiu”
  • Portuguese: “Kyushu”
  • Portuguese: “Quiuxu”
  • Quechua: “Kyushu”
  • Romanian: “Kyushu”
  • Romanian: “Kyūshū”
  • Russian: “Киу-Сиу”
  • Russian: “Киу-Шиу”
  • Russian: “Кюсю”
  • Samogitian: “Kiūšiū”
  • Sardinian: “Kyūshū”
  • Scots: “Kyushu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kyūshū”
  • Serbian: “Кјушу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kjušu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kyūshū”
  • Shona: “Kyushu”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيوشو”
  • Sinhala: “කියුෂූ”
  • Slovak: “Kjúšu”
  • Slovenian: “Kjušu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیوشو”
  • Spanish: “Kyushu”
  • Spanish: “Kyūshū”
  • Sundanese: “Kyūshū”
  • Swahili: “Kyushu”
  • Swedish: “Kyushu”
  • Swedish: “Kyūshū”
  • Tagalog: “Kyūshū”
  • Tamil: “கியூஷூ”
  • Tatar: “Кюсю”
  • Thai: “เกาะคิวชู”
  • Thai: “เกาะคีวชู”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kyushu”
  • Turkish: “Kyūshū”
  • Tuvinian: “Кюсю”
  • Uighur: “كيۇسيۇ ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кюсю”
  • Ukrainian: “Кюшю”
  • Urdu: “کیوشو”
  • Uzbek: “Kiu”
  • Uzbek: “Kyusyu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kiu-xiu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kyushu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kyūshū”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kyushu”
  • Welsh: “Kyūshū”
  • Western Frisian: “Kjûsjû”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیوشو”
  • Wu Chinese: “九州岛”
  • Yakut: “Кюсю”
  • Yiddish: “קיושו”
  • Yue Chinese: “九州”
  • “Kiūšiū”
  • “Kyūshū”
  • “ma Kijusiju”

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Kyushu”. Photo: Nerotaso, CC BY-SA 3.0.