Yame

Yame is a city in prefecture. Yame tea is one of the largest Japanese tea production areas, and as famous as other places like , and .
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  • Type: City with 60,600 residents
  • Description: city in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Iwatoyama Kofun and Iwatoyama History Museum.

Archaeological site
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
is an archaeological site.

Museum
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Post office
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is a post office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hirokawa.

Town
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is a town located in , , . As of 1 January 2024, the town had an estimated population of 19,215 in 8186 households, and a population density of 510 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 37.94 km2.

Yame

Latitude
33.2117° or 33° 12′ 42″ north
Longitude
130.558° or 130° 33′ 29″ east
Population
60,600
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
Open location code
8Q5G6H65+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3056842393
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1848578
Wiki­data ID
Q850492
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yame” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يامي، فوكوكا”
  • Arabic: “يامي”
  • Asturian: “Yame”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামি”
  • Burmese: “ယမဲမြို့၊ ဖုခုအိုခ”
  • Catalan: “Yame”
  • Cebuano: “Yame Shi”
  • Chechen: “Яме (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Яме”
  • Chinese: “Yame-chhī”
  • Chinese: “八女”
  • Chinese: “八女市”
  • Czech: “Jame”
  • Danish: “Yame”
  • Dutch: “Yame”
  • Finnish: “Yame”
  • French: “Yame”
  • Galician: “Yame”
  • German: “Yame”
  • Greek: “Γιάμε”
  • Gujarati: “યામે”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yame, Fukuoka”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yame”
  • Hindi: “यमे”
  • Hungarian: “Jame”
  • Indonesian: “Yame, Fukuoka”
  • Indonesian: “Yame”
  • Irish: “Yame”
  • Italian: “Yame”
  • Japanese: “Yame-shi”
  • Japanese: “やめし”
  • Japanese: “ヤメシ”
  • Japanese: “八女”
  • Japanese: “八女市”
  • Japanese: “福島市”
  • Japanese: “福島町”
  • Kannada: “ಯೇಮ್”
  • Korean: “야메시”
  • Latvian: “Jame”
  • Literary Chinese: “八女市”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamė”
  • Malay: “Yame”
  • Marathi: “यम”
  • Mazanderani: “یامه، فوکوئوکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yame-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yame”
  • Persian: “یامه، فوکوئوکا”
  • Polish: “Yame”
  • Portuguese: “Yame”
  • Romanian: “Yame”
  • Russian: “Яме”
  • Russian: “Ямэ”
  • Sinhala: “යමේ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یامه، فوکوئوکا”
  • Spanish: “Yame”
  • Swedish: “Yame”
  • Tagalog: “Yame”
  • Tajik: “Jame”
  • Tajik: “Яме”
  • Tamil: “யாமே”
  • Tatar: “Яме”
  • Telugu: “యామె”
  • Thai: “ฟูกูชิมะ”
  • Thai: “ยาเมะ”
  • Turkish: “Yame”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукусіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукушіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Яме”
  • Urdu: “یامے ، فوکوکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Yame, Fukuoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Yame”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yame, Fukuoka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yame”
  • Yue Chinese: “八女”

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