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Fukuoka (福岡市 Fukuoka-shi) is the caipital ceety o Fukuoka Prefectur an is situatit on the northren shore o the iland o Kyushu in Japan.
Fukuoka 福岡 | |
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Designatit ceety | |
福岡市 · Fukuoka City | |
![]() Frae tap left: Yatai in Nakasu Fukuoka Castle, Hakozaki Shrine Tenjin, Hakata Gion Yamakasa Seaside Momochi an Fukuoka Touer | |
![]() Location of Fukuoka in Fukuoka | |
Coordinates: 33°35′N 130°24′E | |
Kintra | Japan |
Region | Kyushu |
Prefectur | Fukuoka |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Soichiro Takashima (syne December 2010) |
Area | |
• Total | 340.03 km2 (131.29 sq mi) |
Population (Aprile 1, 2012) | |
• Total | 1,483,052 |
• Density | 4361.53/km2 (11,296.3/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time) |
- Tree | Camphor laurel |
- Flouer | Camellia |
- Bird | Black-heided Gull |
Website | www |
Rankit as the 12t o the warld's maist livable ceeties in the magazine Monocle in 2012, Fukuoka wis praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan settin.[1] It is the maist populous ceety in Kyushu, followed bi Kitakyushu. It is the lairgest ceety an metropolitan aurie west o Keihanshin. The ceety wis designatit on Aprile 1, 1972 bi govrenment ordinance. Greater Fukuoka (福岡都市圏), wi 2.5 million fowk (2005 census), is pairt o the hivily industrialized Fukuoka-Kitakyushu zone as well as Northren Kyushu.
Fukuoka haes seven sister ceeties.[2]
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