Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi Prefecture is in the western region of the main island . It is the westernmost prefecture in the island.
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is a city in Yamaguchi prefecture 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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is the capital of 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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is a castle town shaped by two eras of military presence — the samurai who walked the mighty Kintai-kyo bridge, and the U.S. Marine Corps base in the city today.

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is one of 's most beautiful castle towns, with many old streets and residences that have survived untouched in this town of 50,000 people.

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is a city in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. There is a prefectural airport in the city.

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is a city in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. It is named after its former status as the provincial capital of Suō Province.

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Shūnan is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, . As of 31 May 2023, the city had an estimated population of 137,019 in 6828 households and a population density of 210 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 656.29 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, . As of 31 May 2023, the city had an estimated population of 29,821 in 15298 households and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the city is 140.05 square kilometres.

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San'yō-Onoda is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, . As of 31 May 2023, the city had an estimated population of 59,867 in 29,122 households and a population density of 530 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 133.09 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, . As of 1 April 2023, the city had an estimated population of 21,919 in 10661 households and a population density of 46 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 1,472.64 square kilometres.

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is a town and island in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the . It is well known for its mandarin oranges and ties to Hawaii.

Yamaguchi

Latitude of center
34.238° or 34° 14′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
131.5874° or 131° 35′ 15″ east
Population
1,380,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3110442489
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1848681
Wiki­data ID
Q127264
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Yamaguchi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Yamaguchi”
  • Afrikaans: “Yamaguchi Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Yamaguchi-prefektuur”
  • Amharic: “ያማጉቺ”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “ياماغوتشي”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Armenian: “Յամագութի”
  • Armenian: “Յամագուտի”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Yamaguchi”
  • Asturian: “Yamaguchi (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Yamaguchi (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamaquçi prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Yamaguchi”
  • Basque: “Yamaguchi prefektura”
  • Basque: “Yamaguchi”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Ямагуты”
  • Belarusian: “Прэфэктура Ямагуты”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагуты (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагуты”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагуці”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামাগুচি প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ямагучи”
  • Burmese: “ယမဂုချိခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Catalan: “Yamaguchi”
  • Cebuano: “Yamaguchi-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای یاماگوچی”
  • Central Kurdish: “یاماگوچی”
  • Chechen: “Ямагути (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Ямагути”
  • Chinese: “Yamaguti-koān”
  • Chinese: “山口县”
  • Chinese: “山口縣”
  • Croatian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Czech: “prefektura Jamaguči”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Jamaguči”
  • Danish: “Yamaguchi-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Yamaguchi Prefectuur”
  • Dutch: “Yamaguchi-ken”
  • Dutch: “Yamaguchi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة ياماجوتشى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه ياماجوتشى”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Jamaguĉi”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Yamaguchi”
  • Esperanto: “Jamaguĉi-prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Jamaguĉi”
  • Estonian: “Yamaguchi prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Yamaguchin prefektuuri”
  • French: “préfecture de Yamaguchi”
  • French: “Préfecture de Yamaguchi”
  • French: “Yamaguchi”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Georgian: “იამაგუტი”
  • Georgian: “იამაგუტის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-35”
  • German: “Präfektur Yamaguchi”
  • German: “Yamaguchi-ken”
  • German: “Yamaguchi”
  • Greek: “Γιαμαγκούτσι”
  • Gujarati: “યામાગુચી પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sân-khiéu-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yamaguchi-yen”
  • Hausa: “Yamaguchi”
  • Hebrew: “יאמגוצ’י”
  • Hebrew: “ימאגוצ’י”
  • Hindi: “यामागुची प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Jamagucsi prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Yamaguchi”
  • Iloko: “Yamaguchi”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Yamaguchi”
  • Interlingua: “Prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Yamaguchi”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Yamaguchi”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Yamaguchi”
  • Japanese: “Yamaguchi-ken”
  • Japanese: “やまぐち”
  • Japanese: “ヤマグチ”
  • Japanese: “やまぐちけん”
  • Japanese: “ヤマグチケン”
  • Japanese: “山口”
  • Japanese: “山口県”
  • Javanese: “Yamaguchi”
  • Kannada: “ಯಮಗುಚಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yamagushi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yamaguti prefekturası”
  • Kazakh: “Ямагучи”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តយ៉ាម៉ាហ្គឹឈិ”
  • Khmer: “យ៉ាម៉ាហ្គឹឈិ(ខេត្ត)”
  • Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត យ៉ាម៉ាហ្គឹឈិ”
  • Kirghiz: “Ямагучи”
  • Korean: “산구 현”
  • Korean: “산구현”
  • Korean: “야마구찌현”
  • Korean: “야마구치 현”
  • Korean: “야마구치현”
  • Latvian: “Jamaguči prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “山口縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamaguči prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamagučio prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Yamaguchi prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Јамагучи”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Yamaguchi”
  • Malay: “Yamaguchi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯌꯥꯃꯥꯒꯨꯆꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “यामागुची प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “यामागुची”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yamaguchi-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamaguchi-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamaguti Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamaguti-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamaguti-kōan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yamaguchi (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Northern Sami: “Yamaguchi prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Yamaguchi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamaguchi prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yamaguchi prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Oromo: “Yamaguchi”
  • Ossetian: “Ямагути (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Ямагути”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਮਾਗੁਚੀ”
  • Persian: “استان ياماگوچي”
  • Persian: “استان یاماگوچی”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Yamaguchi”
  • Polish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Portuguese: “Yamaguchi”
  • Pushto: “یاماګوچي”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Yamaguchi”
  • Romanian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Russian: “Ямагути”
  • Scots: “Yamaguchi Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Jamaguči”
  • Serbian: “Јамагучи”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Јамагучи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamaguči”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Jamaguchi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Jamaguči”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Yamaguchi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yamaguchi”
  • Sindhi: “ياماگوچي پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “යමගුචි ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Jamaguči”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Jamaguči”
  • Somali: “Yamaguchi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاماقوچی اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Yamaguchi”
  • Spanish: “Yamaguchi Japon”
  • Spanish: “Yamaguchi Japón”
  • Spanish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Sundanese: “Yamaguchi Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Yamaguchi”
  • Swedish: “Yamaguchi prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Yamaguchi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Yamagutsi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Yamagutsi”
  • Tagalog: “Yamaguchi Prefecture”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Jamaguti”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ямагути”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ямагучи”
  • Tamil: “யாமாகுசி ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tatar: “Ямагути (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Ямагути”
  • Telugu: “యమగూచి ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดยามางูจิ”
  • Thai: “โบโจ”
  • Turkish: “Yamaguchi Prefecture”
  • Turkish: “Yamaguchi prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Yamaguchi”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ямагуті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ямаґуті”
  • Ukrainian: “префектура Ямаґучі”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ямаґучі”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямаґуті”
  • Urdu: “یاماگوچی پرفکترے”
  • Urdu: “یاماگوچی پریفیکچر”
  • Uzbek: “Yamaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamaguchi Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamaguchi”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Yamaguchi”
  • Welsh: “Yamaguchi-ken”
  • Welsh: “Yamaguchi”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع یاماگوچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “山口县”
  • Yue Chinese: “山口”
  • Yue Chinese: “山口縣”

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