Obama

Obama is a city located in , . As of 1 August 2018, the city had an estimated population of 29,435 in 12,057 households and a population density of 240 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 233.09 square kilometres.
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  • Type: City with 29,000 residents
  • Description: city in Fukui prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: Obama, Fukui” and “Ohama

Places of Interest

Highlights include Obama Castle and Sugita Genpaku Memorial Obama Municipal Hospital.

Castle
was a seaside-style castle located in what is now the city of Obama, , . During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a junior branch of the Sakai clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Obama Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.

Castle
was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Obama, in the Hokuriku region of , . The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1997.

Obama

Latitude
35.4938° or 35° 29′ 38″ north
Longitude
135.7447° or 135° 44′ 41″ east
Population
29,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP OBM
Open location code
8Q7QFPVV+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 762538998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1854849
Wiki­data ID
Q41773
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Obama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: أوباما، فوكوي
  • Arabic: أوباما
  • Arabic: مدينة اوباما
  • Asturian: Obama
  • Bengali: ওবামা
  • Catalan: Obama
  • Cebuano: Obama
  • Chechen: Обама (гӀала)
  • Chechen: Обама
  • Chinese: Obama-chhī
  • Chinese: 小滨市
  • Chinese: 小濱
  • Chinese: 小濱市
  • Czech: Obama
  • Danish: Obama
  • Dutch: Obama
  • Eastern Mari: Обама
  • Esperanto: Obama
  • Estonian: Obama
  • Finnish: Obama
  • French: Obama
  • Galician: Obama, Fukui
  • Galician: Obama
  • German: Obama
  • Greek: Ομπάμα
  • Gujarati: ઓબામા
  • Hakka Chinese: Obama-sṳ
  • Hebrew: אובמה
  • Hindi: ओबामा
  • Hungarian: Obama
  • Inari Sami: Obama
  • Indonesian: Obama, Fukui
  • Indonesian: Obama
  • Irish: Obama
  • Italian: Obama
  • Japanese: Obama-shi
  • Japanese: おばまし
  • Japanese: 小浜
  • Japanese: 小浜市
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: Obama
  • Kannada: ಒಬಾಮಾ
  • Kildin Sami: Обама
  • Korean: 소빈시
  • Korean: 오바마 시
  • Korean: 오바마시
  • Latvian: Obama
  • Literary Chinese: 小濱市
  • Lithuanian: Obama
  • Lithuanian: 小浜
  • Lule Sami: Obama
  • Malagasy: Obama
  • Malay: Obama
  • Marathi: ओबामा
  • Mazanderani: اوباما، فوکوئی
  • Mazanderani: اوباما
  • Min Nan Chinese: Obama-chhī
  • Northern Sami: Obama
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Obama
  • Occitan (post 1500): Obama
  • Persian: اوباما، فوکوئی
  • Persian: اوباما
  • Pite Sami: Obama
  • Polish: Obama
  • Portuguese: Obama
  • Romanian: Obama, Fukui
  • Romanian: Obama
  • Russian: Обама
  • Samogitian: Obama
  • Samogitian: 小浜
  • Sinhala: ඔබමා
  • Skolt Sami: Obama
  • Slovak: Obama
  • South Azerbaijani: اوباما، فوکوئی
  • South Azerbaijani: اوباما
  • Southern Sami: Obama
  • Spanish: Obama
  • Swedish: Obama
  • Tagalog: Obama, Fukui
  • Tagalog: Obama
  • Tajik: Обама
  • Tamil: ஒபாமா
  • Tatar: Обама
  • Telugu: ఓబామ
  • Thai: โอบามะ
  • Thai: โอะบะมะ
  • Tornedalen Finnish: Obama
  • Turkish: Obama
  • Ukrainian: Обама
  • Ume Sami: Obama
  • Urdu: اوباما
  • Vietnamese: Obama, Fukui
  • Vietnamese: Obama
  • Waray (Philippines): Obama, Fukui
  • Waray (Philippines): Obama
  • Wu Chinese: Obama, Fukui ken
  • Wu Chinese: 小浜市
  • Yue Chinese: 小濱
  • Obama

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