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Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi is the capital of Yamaguchi prefecture, at the western tip of the island of , . In the city, there is a beautiful Japanese town which flourished as "Kyoto in the West" during the Medieval Period.
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  • Type: City with 194,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Yamaguchi prefecture
  • Also known as: “Yamaguchishi” and “Yamaguti”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
Photo: Maria-Yamaguchi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Maria-Yamaguchi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] and Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art.

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The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, is an art center located in Yamaguchi, , . The structure was designed by the Arata Isozaki and opened in 2003.

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, in Yamaguchi City is the main art gallery of , Japan. Opened in 1979, the gallery has a permanent collection, part of which is exhibited at any one time, and also hosts special exhibitions.

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is a prefectural museum in Yamaguchi, Japan, dedicated to the natural history and history of . It also has displays relating to science, technology, and astronomy.

Yamaguchi

Latitude
34.1781° or 34° 10′ 41″ north
Longitude
131.4737° or 131° 28′ 25″ east
Population
194,000
Elevation
157 metres (515 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP YMG
Open location code
8Q6H5FHF+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 697538055
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1848689
Wiki­data ID
Q207876
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yamaguchi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ياماغوتشي، ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “ياماغوتشي”
  • Armenian: “Յամագուտի”
  • Asturian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamaquçi”
  • Basque: “Yamaguchi”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагуты”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагуці”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামাগুচি”
  • Catalan: “Yamaguchi”
  • Cebuano: “Yamaguchi-shi”
  • Chechen: “Ямагути (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Ямагути”
  • Chinese: “Yamaguti-chhī”
  • Chinese: “山口市”
  • Czech: “Jamaguči”
  • Danish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Dutch: “Yamaguchi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ياماجوتشى (مدينه)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ياماجوتشى”
  • Esperanto: “Jamaguĉi”
  • Estonian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Finnish: “Yamaguchi”
  • French: “Yamaguchi”
  • Galician: “Yamaguchi”
  • German: “Yamaguchi”
  • Greek: “Γιαμαγκούσι”
  • Gujarati: “યામાગુચી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yamaguchi-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “יאמגוצ’י”
  • Hebrew: “ימאגוצ’י”
  • Hindi: “यामागुची”
  • Hungarian: “Jamagucsi”
  • Indonesian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Irish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Italian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Japanese: “Yamaguchi-shi”
  • Japanese: “やまぐち”
  • Japanese: “ヤマグチ”
  • Japanese: “やまぐちし”
  • Japanese: “ヤマグチシ”
  • Japanese: “山口”
  • Japanese: “山口市”
  • Kannada: “ಯಮಾಗುಚಿ”
  • Korean: “야마구찌 시”
  • Korean: “야마구치 시”
  • Korean: “야마구치시”
  • Latvian: “Jamaguči”
  • Literary Chinese: “山口市”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamagučis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Malay: “Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi”
  • Malay: “Yamaguchi”
  • Marathi: “यामागुची”
  • Mazanderani: “یاماگوچی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamaguchi-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamaguti-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamaguchi”
  • Norwegian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Persian: “یاماگوچی”
  • Polish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Portuguese: “Yamaguchi”
  • Romanian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Russian: “Ямагути”
  • Sardinian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Serbian: “Jamaguči”
  • Serbian: “Јамагући”
  • Serbian: “Јамагучи”
  • Serbian: “山口市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamaguchi, Jamaguchi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamaguči”
  • Sinhala: “යමගුචි”
  • Slovak: “Jamaguči”
  • Slovenian: “Jamaguči”
  • Slovenian: “Yamaguchi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاماقوچی”
  • Spanish: “Yamaguchi Yamaguchi”
  • Spanish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Swahili: “Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi”
  • Swahili: “Yamaguchi”
  • Swedish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Yamaguchi”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Yamagutsi”
  • Tagalog: “Yamaguchi”
  • Tajik: “Jamaguci”
  • Tajik: “Ямагучи”
  • Tamil: “யாமாகுசி”
  • Tatar: “Ямагути”
  • Tatar: “Ямагучи”
  • Telugu: “యమగుచి”
  • Thai: “ยามางูจิ”
  • Turkish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямагуті”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямаґуті”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямаґучі”
  • Urdu: “یاماگوچی”
  • Venetian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamaguchi (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamaguchi”
  • Welsh: “Yamaguchi”
  • Western Panjabi: “یاماگوچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “山口市”
  • Yue Chinese: “山口市”

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