Shimonoseki

Shimonoseki is a city in and the westernmost municipality on Honshu, home to a quarter million inhabitants. The city has been at the center of Japanese history for centuries, but it's best known to culinary daredevils as the home of fugu, a pufferfish as cute looking as it is potentially lethal.
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  • City with 255,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 10 metres (33 feet)
  • …is also known as “Simonoseki”
  • Description: city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Neighbors
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kanmon Bridge and Shimonoseki.
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The is a suspension bridge crossing the…
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Station is a passenger railway station…
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is a Shinto shrine in Shimonoseki, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moji-ku and Karato.
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is a Japanese ward of the city of in .
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is the downtown area of the city of Shimonoseki, .

Shimonoseki

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Latitude
33.9577° or 33° 57′ 28″ north
Longitude
130.9415° or 130° 56′ 30″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP SHS
Open location code
8Q5GXW5R+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 697538044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1852225
Wiki­data ID
Q203308

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Shimonoseki” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسكي، ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسكي”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسيكي، ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسيكي”
  • Armenian: “Սիմոնոսեկի”
  • Asturian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimonoseki”
  • Balinese: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Basque: “Shimonoseki”
  • Belarusian: “Сіманасекі”
  • Belarusian: “Сіманасэкі”
  • Bengali: “সিমোনোসেকি”
  • Bulgarian: “Шимоносеки”
  • Catalan: “Shimonoseki”
  • Cebuano: “Shimonoseki”
  • Chechen: “Симоносеки”
  • Chinese: “下关”
  • Chinese: “下关市”
  • Chinese: “下關”
  • Chinese: “下關市”
  • Chinese: “赤間關”
  • Chinese: “馬關”
  • Czech: “Šimonoseki”
  • Danish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Dutch: “Shimonoseki”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيمونوسيكى، ياماجوتشى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيمونوسيكى”
  • Esperanto: “Shimonoseki”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimonoseki”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimonoseko”
  • Estonian: “Akamagaseki”
  • Estonian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Finnish: “Shimonoseki”
  • French: “Shimonoseki”
  • Galician: “Shimonoseki”
  • German: “Akamagaseki”
  • German: “Bakan”
  • German: “Shimonoseki”
  • Greek: “Σιμονοσέκι”
  • Gujarati: “શિમોનોઝ્કી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Hebrew: “שימונוסקי”
  • Hindi: “शिमोनोसेकि”
  • Hungarian: “Simonoszeki”
  • Indonesian: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Indonesian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Irish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Italian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Japanese: “Shimonoseki-shi”
  • Japanese: “しものせきし”
  • Japanese: “下関市”
  • Japanese: “赤間関区”
  • Japanese: “赤間関市”
  • Japanese: “赤間關市”
  • Kannada: “ಷಿಮೋನೋಸ್ಕಿ”
  • Korean: “산구현 하관시”
  • Korean: “시모노세키 시”
  • Korean: “시모노세키”
  • Korean: “시모노세키시”
  • Korean: “야마구치 현 시모노세키 시”
  • Korean: “야마구치현 시모노세키시”
  • Korean: “하관시”
  • Latvian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Literary Chinese: “下關市”
  • Lithuanian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Lithuanian: “Simonosekis”
  • Lithuanian: “Šimonosekis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Malagasy: “Shimonoseki”
  • Malay: “Shimonoseki”
  • Maltese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Marathi: “शिमोनोजी”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمونوسکی، یاماگوچی”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمونوسکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Simonoseki-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimonoseki”
  • Norwegian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Persian: “شیمونوسکی، یاماگوچی”
  • Persian: “شیمونوسکی”
  • Polish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Portuguese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Romanian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Russian: “Симоносеки”
  • Russian: “Симоносэки”
  • Sardinian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Scots: “Shimonoseki”
  • Serbian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Serbian: “Шимоносеки”
  • Serbian: “下関市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Silesian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Sinhala: “ශිමොනොසෙකි”
  • Slovak: “Šimonoseki”
  • Slovenian: “Šimonoseki”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمونوسکی، یاماقوچی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمونوسکی”
  • Spanish: “Shimonoseki Yamaguchi”
  • Spanish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Swedish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Tagalog: “Shimonoseki”
  • Tagalog: “Syimonoseki”
  • Tajik: “Şimonoseki”
  • Tajik: “Шимоносеки”
  • Tamil: “ஷிமோனோசேக்கி”
  • Tatar: “Симоносеки”
  • Tatar: “Чимоносеки”
  • Telugu: “షిమోనోసెకి”
  • Thai: “ชิโมโนเซกิ”
  • Thai: “ชิโมะโนะเซะกิ”
  • Tumbuka: “Shimonoseki”
  • Turkish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Turkish: “Şimonoseki”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімоносекі”
  • Ukrainian: “Шімоносекі”
  • Urdu: “شیمونوسیکی، یاماگوچی”
  • Urdu: “شیمونوسیکی”
  • Venetian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạ Quan thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimonoseki”
  • Welsh: “Shimonoseki”
  • Wu Chinese: “下关市”
  • Yue Chinese: “下關”
  • Yue Chinese: “下關市”

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