Matsue
Matsue is an old castle town at the heart of Izumo Province, and with a population of approximately 207,000 is its largest city.
- Type: City with 204,000 residents
- Description: city in Shimane prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Matsue Shimane”, “Matsue-chhī”, “Thành phố Matsue”, “마쓰에”, “마쯔에 시”, and “마츠에 시”
- Neighbors: Izumo, Sakaiminato, and Yasugi
Places of Interest
Highlights: Matsue Castle and Shimane Art Museum.
Shimane Art Museum
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tamayu.
Matsue
- Categories: special city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, core city of Japan, city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Shimane, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.4681° or 35° 28′ 5″ north
Longitude
133.0488° or 133° 2′ 56″ east
Population
204,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Established
March 31st, 2005
Open location code
8Q7MF29X+6G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Matsue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتسوا، شيمانه”
- Arabic: “ماتسوا”
- Armenian: “Մացուե”
- Asturian: “Matsue”
- Azerbaijani: “Matsue”
- Balinese: “Matsué, Shimané”
- Basque: “Matsue”
- Bavarian: “Matsue”
- Belarusian: “Мацуэ”
- Bengali: “মাটসো”
- Bulgarian: “Мацуе”
- Catalan: “Matsue”
- Cebuano: “Matsue Shi”
- Chechen: “Мацуэ”
- Chinese: “松江市”
- Czech: “Macue”
- Danish: “Matsue”
- Dutch: “Matsue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتسوا”
- Esperanto: “Macue”
- Esperanto: “Macuo”
- Estonian: “Matsue”
- Finnish: “Matsue”
- French: “Matsue”
- Galician: “Matsue”
- German: “Matsue”
- Greek: “Ματσούε”
- Gujarati: “માત્સુ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Matsue-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “מצואואה”
- Hindi: “मात्सुई”
- Hungarian: “Macue”
- Indonesian: “Matsue, Shimane”
- Indonesian: “Matsue”
- Irish: “Matsue”
- Italian: “Matsue”
- Japanese: “Matsue-shi”
- Japanese: “まつえし”
- Japanese: “マツエシ”
- Japanese: “松江”
- Japanese: “松江市”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಟ್ಸು”
- Korean: “마쓰에시”
- Latvian: “Matsuje”
- Literary Chinese: “松江市”
- Lithuanian: “Macujė”
- Luxembourgish: “Matsue”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Matsue”
- Malagasy: “Matsue”
- Malay: “Matsue”
- Marathi: “मात्सू”
- Mazanderani: “ماتسوئه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Matue-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matsue”
- Norwegian: “Matsue”
- Persian: “ماتسوئه”
- Polish: “Matsue”
- Portuguese: “Matsue”
- Romanian: “Matsue”
- Russian: “Мацуэ”
- Sardinian: “Matsue”
- Scots: “Matsue”
- Serbian: “Macue”
- Serbian: “Мацуе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Macue”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Matsue”
- Sinhala: “මට්සුයි”
- Slovenian: “Matsue”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماتسوئه”
- Spanish: “Matsue”
- Swahili: “Matsue, Shimane”
- Swahili: “Matsue”
- Swedish: “Matsue”
- Tagalog: “Matsue”
- Tajik: “Matsue”
- Tajik: “Матсуе”
- Tamil: “மட்சுயே”
- Tatar: “Матсуе”
- Telugu: “మట్సుయే”
- Thai: “มัตสึเอะ”
- Tumbuka: “Matsue”
- Turkish: “Matsue”
- Ukrainian: “Мацуе”
- Urdu: “ماتسو، شیمانے”
- Venetian: “Matsue”
- Vietnamese: “Matsue”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matsue, Shimane”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matsue”
- Welsh: “Matsue”
- Wu Chinese: “松江市”
- Yue Chinese: “松江市”
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