Fukuoka Prefecture | |||||||||
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Capital | Fukuoka (city) | ||||||||
Region | Kyūshū | ||||||||
Island | Kyūshū | ||||||||
Governor | Wataru Aso | ||||||||
Area (rank) | 4,971.01 km² (29th) | ||||||||
- % water | 2.3% | ||||||||
Population (July 1,2004) | |||||||||
- Population | 5,057,932 (9th) | ||||||||
- Density | 1,017 /km² | ||||||||
Districts | 13 | ||||||||
Municipalities | 65 | ||||||||
ISO 3166-2 | JP-40 | ||||||||
Website | www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp/somu/ multilingual/english/top.html |
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Prefectural Symbols | |||||||||
- Flower | Ume blossom (Prunus mume) | ||||||||
- Tree | Azalea (Rhododendron tsutsusi) | ||||||||
- Bird | Japanese Bush Warbler (Cettia diphone) | ||||||||
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Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県 Fukuoka-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka.
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Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen.
Fukuoka Prefecture has signed Friendship Agreements with Bangkok, Thailand, Delhi, India, and Hanoi, Vietnam.
Fukuoka Prefecture faces the sea on three sides, bordering on Saga, Ōita, and Kumamoto prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across the Kanmon Straits.
Fukuoka includes the two largest cities on Kyūshū, Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, and much of Kyūshū's industry. It also includes a number of small islands near the north coast of Kyūshū.
Twenty-eight cities are located in Fukuoka Prefecture:
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These are the towns and villages in each district.
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Fukuoka prefecture's main cities form one of Japan's main industrial centers, accounting for nearly 40% of the economy of Kyūshū. Major industries include automobiles, semiconductors, and steel.
Institution | Location |
Fukuoka University | Fukuoka |
Kurume University | Kurume |
Kyushu Institute of Technology | Kitakyushu and Iizuka |
Kyushu University | Fukuoka |
Seinan Gakuin University | Fukuoka |
Kyūshū Institute of Information Sciences | Dazaifu |
Kyūshū Sangyo University | Fukuoka |
The sports teams listed below are based in Fukuoka.
Football (soccer)
Baseball
Basketball
Rugby
The most popular places for tourists are Fukuoka City, especially at the time of the Dontaku festival, and Dazaifu, although Kitakyushu has also tried to attract tourists.
Since 2003, Fukuoka Prefecture has had the highest frequency of youth crime among all of the prefectures of Japan. [1]
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Kitakyūshū City | |||
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Moji-ku | Wakamatsu-ku | Tobata-ku | Kokura Kita-ku |
Kokura Minami-ku | Yahata Higashi-ku | Yahata Nishi-ku |
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Fukuoka City | |||
Higashi-ku | Hakata-ku | Chūō-ku | Minami-ku | Nishi-ku | Jōnan-ku | Sawara-ku | |||
Cities | |||
Asakura | Buzen | Chikugo | Chikushino | Dazaifu | Fukuoka (capital) | Fukutsu | Iizuka | Kasuga | Kama | Kitakyūshū | Koga | Kurume | Maebaru | Miyama | Miyawaka | Munakata | Nakama | Nōgata | Ogōri | Ōkawa | Ōmuta | Ōnojō | Tagawa | Ukiha | Yame | Yanagawa | Yukuhashi | |||
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Asakura | Chikujō | Chikushi | Itoshima | Kaho | Kasuya | Kurate | Mii | Miyako | Mizuma | Onga | Tagawa | Yame | |||
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