Kure
Kure is a port city in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. It is the third largest city in the prefecture by population, after Hiroshima and Fukuyama. The JMSDF Kure Museum…Photo: Hashi photo, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Fuji-s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 215,000 residents
- Description: city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors: Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Imabari and Matsuyama
Photo: Wei-Te Wong, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: r18 INO (PACHIMO), CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Kure Maritime Museum
Museum
The Yamato Museum is the nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.
JMSDF Kure Museum
Museum
Photo: Fuji-s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Japan Maritime Self Defence Force Kure Museum is a Japanese military museum located in Kure, Hiroshima.
JDS Akishio
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akishio is a retired Japanese diesel-electric Yūshio-class submarine.
Kure
- Categories: special city of Japan, big city, city of Japan, city with public health centre, core city of Japan, military town, port settlement and locality
- Location: Kure, Hiroshima, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2484° or 34° 14' 54" northLongitude
132.5653° or 132° 33' 55" eastPopulation
215,000Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP KREOpen Location Code
8Q6J6HX8+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 191581255OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1858296Wikidata ID
Q223439Kure Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Kure, Hiroshima
- Arabic: كورشي
- Arabic: كورشي، هیروشیما
- Armenian: Կուրե
- Asturian: Kure
- Basque: Kure
- Bengali: কোরে
- Bulgarian: Куре
- Catalan: Kure
- Cebuano: Kure
- Chechen: Куре (Япон)
- Chechen: Куре
- Chinese: Kure-chhī
- Chinese: 吳市
- Chinese: 吴市
- Chinese: 呉市
- Czech: Kure
- Danish: Kure
- Dutch: Kure
- Egyptian Arabic: كوروه, هيروشيما
- English: Kure, Hiroshima
- Estonian: Kure
- Finnish: Kure
- French: Kure
- Galician: Kure
- Georgian: კურე
- German: Kure
- Greek: Κούρε
- Gujarati: કુરે
- Hebrew: קורה
- Hindi: कुरे
- Hungarian: Kure
- Indonesian: Kure
- Irish: Kure
- Italian: Kure
- Japanese: Kure
- Japanese: 呉
- Japanese: 呉市
- Kannada: ಕುರೆ
- Korean: 구레
- Korean: 구레 시
- Korean: 구레시
- Latvian: Kure
- Literary Chinese: 吳市
- Lithuanian: Kurė
- Malagasy: Kure
- Malay: Kure
- Marathi: कुरे
- Mazanderani: کوره، هیروشیما
- Min Nan Chinese: Kure-chhī
- Norwegian: Kure
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kure
- Persian: کوره، هیروشیما
- Polish: Kure
- Portuguese: Kure
- Romanian: Kure
- Russian: Куре
- Russian: Курэ
- Serbian: Couret
- Serbian: Kure
- Serbian: Куре
- Serbian: 呉市
- Serbo-Croatian: Kure
- Sinhala: කුරේ
- Slovak: Kure
- South Azerbaijani: کوره، هیروشیما
- Spanish: Kure
- Spanish: Kure Hiroshima
- Swedish: Kure
- Tagalog: City of Kure
- Tagalog: Kure, Hiroshima
- Tagalog: Kure
- Tagalog: Kure City
- Tagalog: Lungsod Kure
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Kure
- Tagalog: Lunsod Kure
- Tagalog: Lunsod ng Kure
- Tagalog: Siudad Kure
- Tagalog: Siudad ng Kure
- Tagalog: Siyudad Kure
- Tagalog: Siyudad ng Kure
- Tagalog: Syudad Kure
- Tagalog: Syudad ng Kure
- Tajik: Kure
- Tajik: Куре
- Tamil: குரே
- Tatar: Куре
- Telugu: కురే
- Thai: คุเระ
- Thai: คูเระ
- Tumbuka: Kure
- Turkish: Kure
- Ukrainian: Куре
- Urdu: کورے، ہیروشیما
- Uzbek: Kure
- Venetian: Kure
- Vietnamese: Kure
- Waray (Philippines): Kure
- Yue Chinese: 吳市
Other Places Named Kure
In the Area
Kure is situated close to the neighbourhoods Chuo 4-chome and Nakadori 4-chome.
- 中央Hamlet
- Chuo 3-chomeNeighbourhood
- Nakadori 3-chomeNeighbourhood
- Chuo 6-chomeNeighbourhood
- 中通Hamlet
- Hondori 4-chomeNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kure. Photo: Fuji-s, CC BY-SA 3.0.