Tsukuba

Tsukuba is a city located in , Japan. As of January 1, 2024, the city had an estimated population of 256,526 in 121,001 households and a population density of 900 persons per km2.
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  • Type: City with 234,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Tsukuba (Ibaraki)”, “Tsukuba-kenkyūgakuen-toshi”, “Тцукуба”, “تسوكوبا، إيباراكي”, “쓰쿠바”, “츠쿠바”, and “츠쿠바 시”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Kenkyū-gakuen Station and Tsukuba City Hall.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station…

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Museum
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The Science Museum of Map and Survey is a museum…

Tsukuba

Latitude
36.0833° or 36° 5′ north
Longitude
140.0773° or 140° 4′ 38″ east
Population
234,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
IATA airport code
XEI
UN/LOCODE
JP TSB
Open location code
8R8233MG+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768273008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2110681
Wiki­data ID
Q273863
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tsukuba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تسوكوبا”
  • Armenian: “Ծուկուբա”
  • Armenian: “Ցուկուբա”
  • Asturian: “Tsukuba”
  • Basque: “Tsukuba”
  • Belarusian: “Цукуба”
  • Bengali: “সোকোবা”
  • Bulgarian: “Цукуба”
  • Catalan: “Tsukuba”
  • Cebuano: “Tsukuba-shi”
  • Chechen: “Цукуба”
  • Chinese: “筑波市”
  • Czech: “Cukuba”
  • Danish: “Tsukuba”
  • Dutch: “Tsukuba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تسوكوبا”
  • Esperanto: “Cukuba”
  • Estonian: “Tsukuba”
  • Finnish: “Tsukuba”
  • French: “Tsukuba”
  • Galician: “Tsukuba”
  • German: “Tsukuba”
  • Greek: “Τσουκούμπα”
  • Gujarati: “સુકુબા”
  • Hebrew: “צוקובה”
  • Hindi: “सुकुबा”
  • Hungarian: “Cukuba”
  • Indonesian: “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”
  • Indonesian: “Tsukuba”
  • Irish: “Tsukuba”
  • Italian: “Tsukuba”
  • Japanese: “Tsukuba-shi”
  • Japanese: “つくば”
  • Japanese: “つくばし”
  • Japanese: “つくば市”
  • Japanese: “筑波”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಕುಬಾ”
  • Korean: “쓰쿠바 시”
  • Korean: “쓰쿠바시”
  • Latvian: “Cukuba”
  • Literary Chinese: “筑波市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tsukuba”
  • Macedonian: “Цукуба”
  • Malagasy: “Tsukuba”
  • Malay: “Tsukuba”
  • Marathi: “तुकुबा”
  • Mazanderani: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tsukuba-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tukuba-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsukuba”
  • Norwegian: “Tsukuba”
  • Persian: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Persian: “تسوکوبا”
  • Polish: “Tsukuba”
  • Portuguese: “Tsukuba”
  • Romanian: “Tsukuba”
  • Russian: “Цукуба”
  • Serbian: “Cukuba”
  • Serbian: “Цукуба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cukuba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tsukuba”
  • Sinhala: “ට්සුකුබා”
  • Slovenian: “Cukuba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Spanish: “Tsukuba”
  • Swedish: “Tsukuba”
  • Tagalog: “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”
  • Tagalog: “Tsukuba”
  • Tajik: “Tsukuba”
  • Tajik: “Тсукуба”
  • Tamil: “சுகுபா”
  • Tatar: “Тсукуба”
  • Tatar: “Цукуба”
  • Telugu: “సుకుబ”
  • Thai: “สึกุบะ”
  • Thai: “สึกูบะ”
  • Turkish: “Tsukuba”
  • Ukrainian: “Цукуба”
  • Urdu: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Uzbek: “Tsukuba”
  • Venetian: “Tsukuba”
  • Vietnamese: “Tsukuba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tsukuba”
  • Yue Chinese: “筑波”

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