Shimane
Shimane Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km2.
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Shimane
- Type: Province with 665,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “JP-32”, “Prepekturang Syimane”, “Shimane (prefeutura)”, “Shimane (Xapón)”, “Shimane Prefecture”, “Shimane Prefectuur”, “Shimane prefektörlüğü”, “Shimane prefektūra”, “Shimane-koān”, “Ŝimane”, “Šimanė”, “Simane Koān”, “Šimane prefektūra”, “Šimanė prefektūra”, “Simane-kōan”, “Ŝimane-prefektujo”, “Šimanes prefektūra”, “Tỉnh Shimane”, “Сімане”, “Сіманэ (прэфектура)”, “محافظة شيمانه”, “محافظة شيمانيه”, “អាណាខេត្ត ស៊ីម៉ាណិ”, “도근 현”, “도근현”, “시마네”, and “시마네 현”
- Neighbors: Hiroshima, Tottori, and Yamaguchi
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
34.9418° or 34° 56′ 31″ north
Longitude of center
132.5374° or 132° 32′ 15″ east
Population
665,000
Elevation
218 metres (715 feet)
Established
November 15th, 1871
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shimane” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Shimane”
- Afrikaans: “Shimane Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Shimane-prefektuur”
- Amharic: “ሺማነ”
- Arabic: “شيمانه”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura de Shimane”
- Armenian: “Սիմանե (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Սիմանե”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Shimane”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimane prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Shimané”
- Bashkir: “Симанэ”
- Basque: “Shimane”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Сіманэ”
- Belarusian: “Сіманэ”
- Bengali: “শিমানে প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Шимане”
- Burmese: “ရှိမနဲခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Shimane”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Shimane”
- Cebuano: “Shimane-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای شیمانێ”
- Central Kurdish: “شیمانێ”
- Chechen: “Симане (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Симане”
- Chinese: “岛根县”
- Chinese: “島根縣”
- Croatian: “Shimane”
- Czech: “prefektura Šimane”
- Czech: “Prefektura Šimane”
- Danish: “Shimane-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Shimane”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Shimane”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Ŝimane”
- Estonian: “Shimane prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Shimanen prefektuuri”
- French: “préfecture de Shimane”
- French: “Préfecture de Shimane”
- French: “Shimane”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Shimane”
- Georgian: “სიმანეს პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Präfektur Shimane”
- German: “Shimane”
- Greek: “Σιμάνε”
- Gujarati: “શિમૅન પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shimane-yen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tó-kîn-yen”
- Hausa: “Shimane”
- Hebrew: “שימאנה”
- Hindi: “शिमाने प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Shimane prefektúra”
- Hungarian: “Simane prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Shimane”
- Iloko: “Shimane”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Shimane”
- Irish: “Maoracht Shimane”
- Italian: “prefettura di Shimane”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Shimane”
- Japanese: “Shimane-ken”
- Japanese: “しまねけん”
- Japanese: “シマネケン”
- Japanese: “島根”
- Japanese: “島根県”
- Javanese: “Shimane”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಮಾನ್ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kazakh: “Шимане”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តស៊ីម៉ាណិ”
- Khmer: “ស៊ីម៉ាណិ(ខេត្ត)”
- Kirghiz: “Шимане”
- Korean: “시마네현”
- Latvian: “Simanes prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “島根縣”
- Lithuanian: “Šimanės prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Шимане”
- Malay: “Wilayah Shimane”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯃꯥꯅꯦ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “शिमाने प्रांत”
- Marathi: “शिमाने”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Shimane-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Simane-koān”
- Nepali: “सिमाने”
- Northern Frisian: “Shimane (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Shimane”
- Northern Sami: “Shimane prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimane prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shimane prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Shimane”
- Oromo: “Shimane”
- Ossetian: “Симане”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਮਾਨੇ”
- Persian: “استان شیمانه”
- Polish: “Prefektura Shimane”
- Polish: “Shimane”
- Portuguese: “Shimane”
- Pushto: “شیمانه”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Shimane”
- Russian: “Симане”
- Russian: “Симанэ”
- Scots: “Shimane Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Šimane”
- Serbian: “Префектура Шимане”
- Serbian: “Шимане”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Shimane”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Šimane”
- Sindhi: “شيماني پريفيڪچر”
- Sinhala: “ශිමානේ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Šimane”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Šimane”
- Somali: “Shimane”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیمانه اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Shimane”
- Sundanese: “Shimane Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Shimane”
- Swedish: “Shimane prefektur”
- Swedish: “Shimane”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Shimane”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Simane”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Симанэ”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Шимане”
- Tamil: “ஷிம்மனே ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
- Tatar: “Симане (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Симане”
- Telugu: “షిమేన్ ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชิมาเนะ”
- Turkish: “Shimane”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Сімане”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Шімане”
- Urdu: “شیمانے پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Shimane”
- Vietnamese: “Shimane”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shimane”
- Welsh: “Shimane”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیمانے”
- Wu Chinese: “岛根县”
- Yue Chinese: “島根縣”
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