Minamata

Minamata is a city located in , Japan. It is on the west coast of Kyūshū and faces islands. Minamata was established as a village in 1889, re-designated as a town in 1912 and grew into a city in 1949.
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  • City with about 23,200 residents
  • Description: city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as
    “Minamata, Kumamoto”
    “Mizumata”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shin-Minamata and Minamata Station.
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Railway station
Station is a junction passenger railway…
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Railway station
is a passenger railway station in the city of Minamata, , .
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Hospital

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tsunagi.
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Town
is a town located in , , Japan.

Minamata

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Latitude
32.2123° or 32° 12′ 44″ north
Longitude
130.4088° or 130° 24′ 32″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP MIN
Open location code
8Q4G6C65+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 739281399
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1857208
Wiki­data ID
Q386110

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Minamata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميناماتا، كوماموتو”
  • Arabic: “ميناماتا”
  • Armenian: “Մինամատա”
  • Asturian: “Minamata”
  • Basque: “Minamata”
  • Bengali: “মিনামাতা”
  • Bulgarian: “Минамата”
  • Catalan: “Minamata”
  • Cebuano: “Minamata-shi”
  • Cebuano: “Minamata”
  • Chechen: “Минамата”
  • Chinese: “水俁”
  • Chinese: “水俁市”
  • Chinese: “水俣市”
  • Czech: “Minamata”
  • Danish: “Minamata”
  • Dutch: “Minamata”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميناماتا”
  • Esperanto: “Minamata”
  • Estonian: “Minamata”
  • Finnish: “Minamata”
  • French: “Minamata”
  • Galician: “Minamata”
  • Georgian: “მინამატა”
  • German: “Minamata”
  • Greek: “Μιναμάτα”
  • Gujarati: “મિનામાટા”
  • Hindi: “मिनामाता”
  • Hungarian: “Minamata”
  • Ido: “Minamata”
  • Indonesian: “Minamata, Kumamoto”
  • Indonesian: “Minamata”
  • Irish: “Minamata”
  • Italian: “Minamata”
  • Japanese: “Minamata-shi”
  • Japanese: “みなまたし”
  • Japanese: “水俣”
  • Japanese: “水俣市”
  • Japanese: “水俣村”
  • Japanese: “水俣町”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನಾಮಾಟಾ”
  • Korean: “미나마타 시”
  • Korean: “미나마타”
  • Latvian: “Minamata”
  • Literary Chinese: “水俁市”
  • Lithuanian: “Minamata”
  • Malagasy: “Minamata”
  • Malay: “Minamata”
  • Marathi: “मिनमाटा”
  • Mazanderani: “میناماتا، کوماموتو”
  • Mazanderani: “میناماتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Minamata-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minamata”
  • Persian: “میناماتا، کوماموتو”
  • Persian: “میناماتا”
  • Polish: “Minamata”
  • Portuguese: “Minamata”
  • Romanian: “Minamata”
  • Russian: “Минамата”
  • Russian: “Минамато”
  • Sinhala: “මිනමටා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میناماتا، کوماموتو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میناماتا”
  • Spanish: “Minamata”
  • Swedish: “Minamata”
  • Tagalog: “Minamata, Kumamoto”
  • Tagalog: “Minamata”
  • Tajik: “Minamata”
  • Tajik: “Минамата”
  • Tamil: “மினமாடா”
  • Tatar: “Минамата”
  • Telugu: “మినామట”
  • Thai: “มินามาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Minamata”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінамата”
  • Urdu: “میناماتا، کوماموتو”
  • Urdu: “میناماتا”
  • Vietnamese: “Minamata, Kumamoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Minamata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Minamata, Kumamoto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Minamata”
  • Yue Chinese: “水俁”

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