Kyushu
Kyūshū is the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan. The climate is slightly warmer and more tropical than Honshu, and the southern and eastern coasts are regularly battered by typhoons each year.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Nagasaki
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Nagasaki, officially known as Nagasaki City is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Fukuoka
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Fukuoka is the capital of Fukuoka prefecture and the largest city on the island of Kyushu with 2.5 million citizens including its suburbs.
Kitakyushu
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Kitakyūshū is a large city in Fukuoka prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
Destinations
Kagoshima
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Kagoshima Prefecture is the southernmost prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
Saga
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Saga Prefecture is a small and rustic prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Fukuoka
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Fukuoka Prefecture is the most populous prefecture of Kyushu, Japan with a population of over 5 million.
Kumamoto
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Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū.
Miyazaki
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Miyazaki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū.
Nagasaki
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Nagasaki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū.
Oita
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Ōita Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū.
Kyushu
Latitude of centre
32.3355° or 32° 20' 8" northLongitude of centre
130.8508° or 130° 51' 3" eastPopulation
13,200,000Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)GeoNames ID
1857891Wikidata ID
Q13987Kyushu Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Kyushu
- Afrikaans: Kioesjoe
- Albanian: Kyūshū
- Arabic: Kyushu
- Arabic: كيوشو
- Armenian: Կյուսյու
- Azerbaijani: Kyuşu
- Balinese: Kyūshū
- Bashkir: Кюсю
- Basque: Kyushu
- Basque: Kyūshū
- Belarusian: Кюсю
- Bengali: কিউশু
- Bosnian: Kjušu
- Bosnian: Kyushu
- Breton: Kyūshū
- Bulgarian: Кюшу
- Catalan: Kyūshū
- Cebuano: Kyushu
- Central Kurdish: کیووشو
- Chinese: Kyûsyû
- Chinese: 九州
- Croatian: Kyushu
- Czech: Kjúšú
- Danish: Kyushu
- Dutch: Kyushu
- Egyptian Arabic: كيوشو
- English: Kyushu Island
- English: Kyûshû
- English: Kyūshū
- Esperanto: Kiuŝuo
- Esperanto: Kjuŝuo
- Estonian: Kyūshū
- Faroese: Kyushu
- Finnish: Kyūshū
- French: Kyushu
- French: Kyûshû
- French: Kyūshū
- Galician: Kyūshū
- Georgian: კიუსიუ
- German: Chinzei
- German: Kiuschu
- German: Kyukoku
- German: Kyushu
- German: Kyûshû
- German: Kyūkoku
- German: Kyūshū
- German: Tsukushi-no-shima
- German: neun Provinzen
- Greek: Κιούσου
- Greek: Κιοῡσοῡ
- Hakka Chinese: Kiú-chiu
- Hausa: Kyushu
- Hausa: Kyūshū
- Hebrew: קיושו
- Hindi: क्यूशू
- Hungarian: Kjúsú
- Hungarian: Kyūshū
- Icelandic: Kyushu
- Ido: Kyushu
- Iloko: Kyushu
- Indonesian: Kyushu
- Interlingue: Kyūshū
- Irish: Kyushu
- Italian: Kyūshū
- Japanese: きゅうしゅうちほう
- Japanese: キュウシュウチホウ
- Japanese: 九州
- Japanese: 九州地方
- Japanese: 九州島
- Japanese: 筑紫島
- Japanese: 筑紫洲
- Kazakh: Кюсю
- Khmer: តំបន់ឃ្ជឺស្សឺ
- Kirghiz: Кюсю
- Korean: 규슈
- Kurdish: Kyushu
- Lao: Kyushu
- Latin: Xima
- Latin: Xima Insula
- Latin: Ximum
- Latvian: Kjusju
- Lithuanian: Kiūšiū
- Macedo-Romanian: Kyūshū
- Macedonian: Кјушу
- Malay: Kyūshū
- Malayalam: ക്യൂഷൂ
- Marathi: क्युशू
- Min Nan Chinese: Kiú-tsiu
- Min Nan Chinese: Kyûsyû
- Northern Frisian: Kyūshū
- Norwegian: Kyushu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kyushu
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kyushu
- Occitan (post 1500): Kyūshū
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Kyūscū
- Ossetian: Кюсю
- Pampanga: Kyūshū
- Panjabi: ਕਿਊਸ਼ੂ ਟਾਪੂ
- Persian: کیوشو
- Polish: Kiusiu
- Portuguese: Kyushu
- Portuguese: Quiuxu
- Quechua: Kyushu
- Romanian: Kyushu
- Romanian: Kyūshū
- Russian: Киу-Сиу
- Russian: Киу-Шиу
- Russian: Кюсю
- Samogitian: Kiūšiū
- Sardinian: Kyūshū
- Scots: Kyushu
- Scottish Gaelic: Kyūshū
- Serbian: Кјушу
- Serbo-Croatian: Kjušu
- Serbo-Croatian: Kjūshū
- Shona: Kyushu
- Sinhala: කියුෂූ
- Slovak: Kjúšu
- Slovenian: Kjušu
- South Azerbaijani: کیوشو
- Spanish: Kyushu
- Spanish: Kyūshū
- Sundanese: Kyūshū
- Swahili: Kyushu
- Swedish: Kyushu
- Swedish: Kyūshū
- Tagalog: Kyūshū
- Tamil: கியூஷூ
- Tatar: Кюсю
- Thai: เกาะคิวชู
- Thai: เกาะคีวชู
- Tok Pisin: Kyushu
- Turkish: Kyūshū
- Uighur: كيۇسيۇ ئارىلى
- Ukrainian: Кюсю
- Ukrainian: Кюшю
- Urdu: کیوشو
- Uzbek: Kiu
- Uzbek: Kyusyu
- Vietnamese: Kiu-xiu
- Vietnamese: Kyushu
- Waray (Philippines): Kyushu
- Welsh: Kyūshū
- Western Frisian: Kjûsjû
- Western Panjabi: کیوشو
- Wu Chinese: 九州岛
- Yakut: Кюсю
- Yiddish: קיושו
- Yue Chinese: 九州
- Kyushu Chiho
- Kyūshū-chihō
- Kyūshū Chihō
- កោះឃ្យូស្ស៊ូ
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. 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 Kyushu. Photo: Nerotaso, CC BY-SA 3.0.