Northern Okinawa
Motobu is a town located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2016, the town has an estimated population of 13,441 and a density of 250 persons per km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 14,100 residents
- Description: town in Kunigami district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Motobu” and “Motobu, Okinawa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Motobu Ferry Port and Sesoko Bridge.
Motobu Ferry Port
Passenger ship terminal
Photo: Rsa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Motobu Ferry Port is a passenger ship terminal.
Mount Yae
Peak
Photo: Kugel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Yae, also known as Mount Yaedake or Yae-take, is a mountain in Motobu, Okinawa on Okinawa Island. It is the tallest mountain on the Motobu Peninsula, standing at 453.4 m. Nakijin Castle and Nago Castle were built nearby in the 14th century. Mount Yae is situated 4 km southeast of Northern Okinawa.
Northern Okinawa
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Okinawa Island, Ginoza Son, Kunigami District, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.6579° or 26° 39′ 29″ northLongitude
127.898° or 127° 53′ 53″ eastPopulation
14,100Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
7QR9MV5X+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 653734241OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
11001656Wikidata ID
Q1205928
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Satellite Map
Discover Northern Okinawa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Northern Okinawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “موتوبو”
- Asturian: “Motobu”
- Catalan: “Motobu”
- Cebuano: “Motobu Chō”
- Central Okinawan: “本部町”
- Chinese: “本部町”
- Czech: “Motobu”
- Dutch: “Motobu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موتوبو”
- French: “Motobu-chō”
- French: “Motobu”
- German: “Motobu”
- Hebrew: “מוטובו”
- Hungarian: “Motobu”
- Indonesian: “Motobu, Okinawa”
- Indonesian: “Motobu”
- Irish: “Motobu”
- Italian: “Motobu”
- Japanese: “Motobu-chō”
- Japanese: “もとぶちょう”
- Japanese: “本部村”
- Japanese: “本部町”
- Korean: “모토부정”
- Korean: “모토부초”
- Malay: “Motobu, Okinawa”
- Malay: “Motobu”
- Persian: “موتوبو، اوکیناوا”
- Persian: “موتوبو”
- Polish: “Motobu”
- Portuguese: “Motobu”
- Russian: “Мотобу”
- Spanish: “Motobu”
- Swedish: “Motobu”
- Tagalog: “Motobu, Okinawa”
- Tagalog: “Motobu”
- Thai: “โมโตบุ”
- Turkish: “Motobu”
- Ukrainian: “Мотобу”
- Yue Chinese: “本部町”
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