Mount Aso
Mount Aso, in Kyushu's Kumamoto prefecture, is an active volcano that has one of the largest calderas in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Nudimmud, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,506 metres
- Description: volcano in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Aso-san” and “Aso-zan”
Photo: Sonata, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mt. Naka-dake and Mt. Taka-dake.
Mount Aso
- Categories: supervolcano and landform
- Location: Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.8827° or 32° 52′ 58″ northLongitude
131.0947° or 131° 5′ 41″ eastElevation
1,506 metres (4,941 feet)Open location code
8Q4HV3MV+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 917987193OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Mount Aso” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل أسو”
- Azerbaijani: “Aso vulkanı”
- Basque: “Aso mendia”
- Belarusian: “Аса (вулкан)”
- Belarusian: “Аса”
- Belarusian: “вулкан Аса”
- Bengali: “mount aso”
- Bulgarian: “Асо”
- Burmese: “အဆိုတောင်”
- Catalan: “Aso”
- Cebuano: “Aso-san”
- Chinese: “阿苏山”
- Chinese: “阿蘇山”
- Chinese: “阿蘇火山”
- Czech: “Aso”
- Dutch: “Aso”
- Estonian: “Aso mägi”
- Estonian: “Aso vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Aso-san”
- French: “Aso-san”
- French: “mont Aso”
- French: “Mont Aso”
- Georgian: “ასო (ვულკანი)”
- Georgian: “ასო”
- German: “Aso-san”
- German: “Aso”
- German: “Naka-dake”
- Hebrew: “אסו”
- Hungarian: “Aszo”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Aso”
- Italian: “Monte Aso”
- Japanese: “Aso-san”
- Japanese: “あそさん”
- Japanese: “中岳”
- Japanese: “米塚”
- Japanese: “阿蘇五岳”
- Japanese: “阿蘇山”
- Japanese: “阿蘇山大噴火”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Nulu Aso”
- Kirghiz: “Асо”
- Korean: “아소산”
- Latin: “Mons Aso”
- Latin: “Mons Asovius”
- Lithuanian: “Asas (ugnikalnis)”
- Lithuanian: “Asas”
- Lithuanian: “Aso ugnikalnis”
- Macedonian: “Асо”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aso-san”
- Norwegian: “Aso-san”
- Novial: “Mount Aso”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Aso”
- Persian: “کوه آسو”
- Persian: “کوهٔ آسو”
- Persian: “کوه اسو”
- Polish: “Aso”
- Portuguese: “Monte Aso”
- Romanian: “Muntele Aso”
- Russian: “Асо (гора)”
- Russian: “Асо”
- Russian: “вулкан Асо”
- Sardinian: “Monte Aso”
- Slovak: “Aso (sopka)”
- Slovak: “Aso”
- Slovenian: “Aso (gora)”
- Slovenian: “Aso”
- Spanish: “Monte As”
- Spanish: “Monte Aso”
- Swedish: “Aso-san”
- Swedish: “Aso”
- Swedish: “Mount Aso”
- Thai: “เขาอาโซะ”
- Turkish: “Aso Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “вулкан Асо”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Aso”
- Western Panjabi: “ماؤنٹ آسو”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Mount Aso”. Photo: Nudimmud, CC BY-SA 3.0.