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Okayama Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the of . Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,826,059 and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2.
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Top destinations include Okayama and Kurashiki.

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is a major transit hub for western . But with white peaches, a brooding black castle, and the famous garden of Kōrakuen, there are plenty of reasons to catch a later train and get out of the station to explore.

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is one of Japan's great old merchant towns, with around half a million citizens today. Sitting along a scenic canal at the foot of Mt. Tsurugata, 's white-walled storehouses are beautifully preserved and open for exploration.

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is a city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. In February 2023, the city had an estimated population of 97,507 in 45,653 households and a population density of 190 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 506.33 square kilometres.

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Sōja is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2023, the city had an estimated population of 69,428 and a population density of 330 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 211.90 square kilometres.

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is a city in Okayama Prefecture in the western region of the island of in .

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is a city located in northwestern Okayama Prefecture, . As of 28 February 2023, the city had an estimated population of 27,106 in 12,626 households. and a population density of 34 persons per km2.

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is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, . As of 31 January 2023, the city had an estimated population of 32,019 in 15,467 households and a population density of 120 persons per km². The total area of the city is 258.14 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, . As of 1 February 2023, the city had an estimated population of 42,477 in 17568 households and a population density of 51 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 828.53 square kilometres.

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is a city in Okayama Prefecture, about 40 minutes away from by train. The most frequent reason for visiting are its islands, especially , which you can visit by ferry.

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is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2023, the city had an estimated population of 37,835 in 16,677 households and a population density of 160 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 243.54 square kilometres.

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is a city located in southern Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 October 2022, the city had an estimated population of 55,889 in 27087 households, and a population density of 540 persons per km2. Its total area is 103.58 square kilometres…

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is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, . As of 1 March 2023, the city had an estimated population of 33,322 in 14,409 households and a population density of 500 persons per km2.

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is a town located in , Okayama Prefecture, . As of 1 March 2023, the town had an estimated population of 13,418 in 5445 households and a population density of 150 persons per km². The total area of the town is 90.62 square kilometres.

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is a town located in , Okayama Prefecture, . As of 1 December 2024, the town had a population of 5,512 in 2,437 households and a population density of 79.3 persons per km². The total area of the town is 69.52 square kilometres.

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is a village located in , Okayama Prefecture, .As of 1 February 2023, the village had an estimated population of 1,361 in 593 households and a population density of 29 persons per km².

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is a town located in , Okayama Prefecture, .As of 31 December 2022, the town had an estimated population of 4,483 in 2192 households and a population density of 57 persons per km2.

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Shinjō is a village located in , Okayama Prefecture, . As of 30 November 2022, the village had an estimated population of 847 in 378 households and a population density of 13 persons per km2.

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is an island in the . Administratively, it is part of in Okayama Prefecture.

Okayama

Latitude of center
34.8581° or 34° 51′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
133.7759° or 133° 46′ 33″ east
Population
1,910,000
Elevation
286 metres (938 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5080645282
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1854381
Wiki­data ID
Q132936
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Okayama” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Okayama”
  • Afrikaans: “Okayama Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Okayama-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “أوكاياما”
  • Arabic: “اوكاياما”
  • Arabic: “محافظة أوكاياما”
  • Armenian: “Օկայամա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Օկայամա”
  • Asturian: “Okayama (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Okayama (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Okayama”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura d’Okayama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Okayama prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Okayama”
  • Bashkir: “Окаяма (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Окаяма”
  • Basque: “Okayama”
  • Belarusian: “Акаяма (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Акаяма”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Акаяма”
  • Bengali: “ওকায়ামা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Окаяма”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Okayama”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura d’Okayama”
  • Cebuano: “Okayama-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆکایاما”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئۆکایاما”
  • Chechen: “Окаяма (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Окаяма”
  • Chinese: “Okayama-koān”
  • Chinese: “冈山县”
  • Chinese: “岡山縣”
  • Croatian: “Okayama”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Okayama”
  • Czech: “prefektura Okajama”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Okajama”
  • Danish: “Okayama-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Okayama Prefectuur”
  • Dutch: “Okayama-ken”
  • Dutch: “Okayama”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Okajama”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Okajamo”
  • Esperanto: “Okajama-prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Okajama”
  • Estonian: “Okayama prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Okayaman prefektuuri”
  • French: “Okayama-ken”
  • French: “Okayama”
  • French: “préfecture d’Okayama”
  • French: “Préfecture d’Okayama”
  • French: “Préfecture de Okayama”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Okayama”
  • Georgian: “ოკაიამის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-33”
  • German: “Okayama”
  • German: “Präfektur Okayama”
  • Greek: “Οκαγιάμα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓકાયામા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kông-sân-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Okayama-yen”
  • Hebrew: “אוקיאמה”
  • Hindi: “ओकायामा प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Okajama prefektúra”
  • Hungarian: “Okayama prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Okayama”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Okayama”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Okayama”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Okayama”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Okayama”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Okayama”
  • Japanese: “Okayama-ken”
  • Japanese: “おかやまけん”
  • Japanese: “岡山”
  • Japanese: “岡山県”
  • Japanese: “晴れの国”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Okayama”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Okayama”
  • Kannada: “ಒಕಯಮಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តអូកាយ៉ាម៉ា”
  • Korean: “강산 현”
  • Korean: “강산현”
  • Korean: “오까야마현”
  • Korean: “오카야마 현”
  • Korean: “오카야마”
  • Korean: “오카야마현”
  • Latvian: “Okajamas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “岡山縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Okajama prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Okajamos prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Okayama prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Окајама”
  • Malay: “Okayama”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Okayama”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯀꯥꯌꯥꯃꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “ओकायामा प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “ओकायामा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Okayama-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Okayama Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Okayama-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Okayama-kōan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Okayama (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Okayama”
  • Northern Sami: “Okayama prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Okayama prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okayama prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Okayama”
  • Ossetian: “Окаямæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Окаямæ”
  • Persian: “استان اوکایاما”
  • Polish: “Okayama”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Okayama”
  • Portuguese: “Okayama”
  • Romanian: “Okayama”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Okayama”
  • Russian: “Окаяма”
  • Scots: “Okayama Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Okajama”
  • Serbian: “Окајама”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Окајама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okajama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okayama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Okajama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Okayama”
  • Sinhala: “ඔකයාමා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Okajama”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Okajama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوکایاما اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Okayama Japon”
  • Spanish: “Okayama Japón”
  • Spanish: “Okayama”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Okayama”
  • Sundanese: “Okayama Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Okayama”
  • Swedish: “Okayama prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Okayama”
  • Tagalog: “Okayama Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Okayama”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Okayama”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Okajama”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Окаяма”
  • Tamil: “ஆகாயமா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Окаяма (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Окаяма”
  • Telugu: “ఓకయామా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโอกายามะ”
  • Turkish: “Okayama prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Okayama”
  • Ukrainian: “Окаяма”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Окаяма”
  • Urdu: “اوکایاما پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Okayama”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Okayama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Okayama Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Okayama”
  • Welsh: “Okayama-ken”
  • Welsh: “Okayama”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع اوکایاما”
  • Wu Chinese: “冈山县”
  • Yue Chinese: “冈山县”
  • Yue Chinese: “岡山”
  • Yue Chinese: “岡山縣”

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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 Wikipedia page “Okayama”. Photo: Aimaimyi, CC BY-SA 3.0.