Uwajima

Uwajima is a slice of small town life on the west coast of — nothing much out of the ordinary, if you don't count an ancient fertility shrine and the occasional sumo match between two bulls.
  • City with about 69,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • Description: city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as
    “Uwajima, Ehime”
    “Uwazima”
  • Neighbors

Places of Interest

Highlights include Uwajima Castle and Kita-Uwajima Station.
Vickerman625, Public domain.
Castle
is a hirayama-jiro Japanese castle located in the city of Uwajima, , .
Railway station
is a passenger railway station…
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Latitude
33.2232° or 33° 13′ 24″ north
Longitude
132.5607° or 132° 33′ 38″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP UWA
Open location code
8Q5J6HF6+77
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Uwajima” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يواجيما، إهيمه”
  • Arabic: “يواجيما”
  • Armenian: “Ուվաջիմա”
  • Asturian: “Uwajima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uvacima”
  • Basque: “Uwajima”
  • Belarusian: “Увадзіма”
  • Bengali: “উয়াজিমা”
  • Catalan: “Uwajima”
  • Cebuano: “Uwajima”
  • Chechen: “Увадзима”
  • Chinese: “宇和岛市”
  • Chinese: “宇和島市”
  • Czech: “Itadžima”
  • Czech: “Uwadžima”
  • Danish: “Uwajima”
  • Dutch: “Uwajima”
  • Esperanto: “Uŭaĝima”
  • Finnish: “Uwajima”
  • French: “Uwajima”
  • Galician: “Uwajima”
  • German: “Uwajima”
  • Greek: “Ουβατζίμα”
  • Gujarati: “ઉવાજિમા”
  • Hindi: “उवाजिमा”
  • Hungarian: “Uvadzsima”
  • Hungarian: “Uwajima”
  • Indonesian: “Uwajima, Ehime”
  • Indonesian: “Uwajima”
  • Irish: “Uwajima”
  • Italian: “Uwajima”
  • Japanese: “Uwajima-shi”
  • Japanese: “うわじまし”
  • Japanese: “宇和島”
  • Japanese: “宇和島市”
  • Kannada: “ಉವಾಜಿಮಾ”
  • Korean: “우와지마 시”
  • Latvian: “Uvadžima”
  • Literary Chinese: “宇和島市”
  • Lithuanian: “Uvadžima”
  • Malagasy: “Uwajima”
  • Malay: “Uwajima, Ehime”
  • Malay: “Uwajima”
  • Marathi: “उवाजामा”
  • Mazanderani: “اواجیما، اهیمه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Uwazima-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uwajima”
  • Persian: “اواجیما، اهیمه”
  • Persian: “اواجیما”
  • Polish: “Uwajima”
  • Portuguese: “Uwajima”
  • Romanian: “Uwajima”
  • Russian: “Увадзима”
  • Serbian: “Увађима”
  • Silesian: “Uwajima”
  • Sinhala: “උවජිමා”
  • Slovenian: “Uvadžima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اواجیما، اهیمه”
  • Spanish: “Uwajima”
  • Swedish: “Uwajima”
  • Tagalog: “Uwadyima”
  • Tagalog: “Uwajima”
  • Tajik: “Uvaçima”
  • Tajik: “Уваҷима”
  • Tamil: “உவாஜிம”
  • Tatar: “Увадзима”
  • Telugu: “ఉవాజిమ”
  • Thai: “อูวาจิมะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Uwajima”
  • Turkish: “Uwajima”
  • Ukrainian: “Уваджіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Увадзіма”
  • Urdu: “اواجیما، اہیمے”
  • Uzbek: “Uvadzima”
  • Vietnamese: “Uwajima, Ehime”
  • Vietnamese: “Uwajima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uwajima, Ehime”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uwajima”
  • Welsh: “Uwajima”
  • Wu Chinese: “宇和島市”
  • Yue Chinese: “宇和島”

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