Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefecture is in the western Chugoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu. It is the westernmost prefecture in the island.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Yamaguchi
Latitude of centre
34.238° or 34° 14' 17" northLongitude of centre
131.5874° or 131° 35' 15" eastPopulation
1,380,000Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 3110442489OpenStreetMap Feature
place=provinceGeoNames ID
1848681Wikidata ID
Q127264Yamaguchi Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Prefektur Yamaguchi
- Afar: Yamaguti prefekturası
- Afrikaans: Yamaguchi-prefektuur
- Afrikaans: Yamaguchi Prefektuur
- Arabic: Yamaguchi
- Arabic: محافظة ياماغوتشي
- Arabic: ياماغوتشي
- Armenian: Յամագութի
- Armenian: Յամագուտի
- Asturian: Yamaguchi (Xapón)
- Asturian: Yamaguchi (prefeutura)
- Asturian: Yamaguchi
- Asturian: prefeutura de Yamaguchi
- Azerbaijani: Yamaquçi prefekturası
- Balinese: Préféktur Yamaguchi
- Basque: Yamaguchi
- Basque: Yamaguchi prefektura
- Belarusian: Прэфэктура Ямагуты
- Belarusian: Ямагуты (прэфектура)
- Belarusian: Ямагуты
- Belarusian: Ямагуці
- Belarusian: прэфектура Ямагуты
- Bengali: ইয়ামাগুচি প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল
- Bulgarian: Ямагучи
- Catalan: Prefectura de Yamaguchi
- Catalan: Yamaguchi
- Catalan: prefectura de Yamaguchi
- Cebuano: Yamaguchi-ken
- Central Kurdish: یاماگوچی
- Chechen: Ямагути (префектура)
- Chechen: Ямагути
- Chinese: Yamaguti-koān
- Chinese: 山口县
- Chinese: 山口縣
- Croatian: Yamaguchi
- Czech: Prefektura Jamaguči
- Czech: prefektura Jamaguči
- Danish: Yamaguchi-præfekturet
- Dutch: Yamaguchi-ken
- Dutch: Yamaguchi
- Dutch: Yamaguchi Prefectuur
- Egyptian Arabic: محافظه ياماجوتشى
- English: Bōchō
- English: Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Esperanto: Gubernio Jamaguĉi
- Esperanto: Jamaguĉi-prefektujo
- Esperanto: Jamaguĉi
- Estonian: Yamaguchi prefektuur
- Finnish: Yamaguchin prefektuuri
- French: Préfecture de Yamaguchi
- French: Yamaguchi
- French: préfecture de Yamaguchi
- Galician: Prefectura de Yamaguchi
- Georgian: იამაგუტი
- Georgian: იამაგუტის პრეფექტურა
- German: JP-35
- German: Präfektur Yamaguchi
- German: Yamaguchi
- German: Yamaguchi-ken
- Greek: Γιαμαγκούτσι
- Gujarati: યામાગુચી પ્રીફેકચર
- Hakka Chinese: Sân-khiéu-yen
- Hausa: Yamaguchi-yen
- Hebrew: יאמגוצ'י
- Hebrew: ימאגוצ'י
- Hindi: यामागुची प्रीफेक्चर
- Hungarian: Jamagucsi prefektúra
- Iloko: Yamaguchi
- Indonesian: Prefektur Yamaguchi
- Interlingua: Prefectura de Yamaguchi
- Irish: Maoracht Yamaguchi
- Italian: prefettura di Yamaguchi
- Japanese: Yamaguchi-Ken
- Japanese: やまぐち
- Japanese: やまぐちけん
- Japanese: ヤマグチ
- Japanese: ヤマグチケン
- Japanese: 山口
- Japanese: 山口県
- Japanese: 防長
- Kannada: ಯಮಗುಚಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Yamagushi
- Khmer: ខេត្តយ៉ាម៉ាហ្គឹឈិ
- Khmer: អាណាខេត្ត យ៉ាម៉ាហ្គឹឈិ
- Korean: 산구 현
- Korean: 산구현
- Korean: 야마구치 현
- Korean: 야마구치현
- Lao: Prepektura ti Yamaguchi
- Latvian: Jamaguči prefektūra
- Literary Chinese: 山口縣
- Lithuanian: Jamagučio prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Jamaguči prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Yamaguchi prefektūra
- Macedonian: Јамагучи
- Malay: Wilayah Yamaguchi
- Malay: Yamaguchi
- Manipuri: ꯌꯥꯃꯥꯒꯨꯆꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Marathi: यामागुची
- Marathi: यामागुची प्रांत
- Min Dong Chinese: Yamaguchi-gâing
- Min Nan Chinese: Yamaguchi-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Yamaguti-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Yamaguti-kōan
- Min Nan Chinese: Yamaguti Koān
- Mongolian: ꯌꯥꯃꯥꯒꯨꯆꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Northern Frisian: Yamaguchi (Prefektüür)
- Northern Frisian: Yamaguchi
- Northern Sami: Yamaguchi prefektuvra
- Norwegian: Yamaguchi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Prefekturet Yamaguchi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Yamaguchi prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Yamaguchi prefektur
- Ossetian: Ямагути (префектурæ)
- Ossetian: Ямагути
- Persian: استان ياماگوچي
- Persian: استان یاماگوچی
- Polish: Prefektura Yamaguchi
- Polish: Yamaguchi
- Portuguese: Yamaguchi
- Romanian: Prefectura Yamaguchi
- Romanian: Yamaguchi
- Russian: Ямагути
- Scots: Yamaguchi Prefectur
- Serbian: Prefektura Jamaguči
- Serbian: Јамагучи
- Serbian: Префектура Јамагучи
- Serbo-Croatian: Jamaguči
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Jamaguchi
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Jamaguči
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Yamaguchi
- Serbo-Croatian: Yamaguchi
- Sinhala: යමගුචි ප්රාන්තය
- Slovak: Jamaguči
- Slovenian: Prefektura Jamaguči
- South Azerbaijani: یاماقوچی اوستانی
- Spanish: Prefectura de Yamaguchi
- Spanish: Yamaguchi
- Spanish: Yamaguchi Japon
- Spanish: Yamaguchi Japón
- Spanish: prefectura de Yamaguchi
- Sundanese: Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Yamaguchi
- Swedish: Yamaguchi
- Swedish: Yamaguchi prefektur
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Yamaguchi
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Yamagutsi
- Tagalog: Prepekturang Yamagutsi
- Tagalog: Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Tajik: Prefekturai Jamaguti
- Tajik: Префектураи Ямагути
- Tajik: Префектураи Ямагучи
- Tamil: யாமாகுசி ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே
- Tatar: Ямагути (префектура)
- Tatar: Ямагути
- Telugu: యమగూచి ప్రిఫెక్చర్
- Thai: จังหวัดยะมะงุจิ
- Thai: จังหวัดยะมะงุชิ
- Thai: จังหวัดยามางูจิ
- Turkish: Yamaguchi
- Turkish: Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Turkish: Yamaguchi prefektörlüğü
- Ukrainian: Префектура Ямагуті
- Ukrainian: Префектура Ямаґуті
- Ukrainian: Ямаґуті
- Ukrainian: Ямаґучі
- Ukrainian: префектура Ямаґучі
- Urdu: یاماگوچی پرفکترے
- Urdu: یاماگوچی پریفیکچر
- Vietnamese: Yamaguchi
- Waray (Philippines): Yamaguchi
- Waray (Philippines): Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Welsh: Talaith Yamaguchi
- Welsh: Yamaguchi-ken
- Welsh: Yamaguchi
- Western Panjabi: ضلع یاماگوچی
- Wu Chinese: 山口县
- Yue Chinese: 山口
- Yue Chinese: 山口縣
- Prefettura di Yamaguchi
- Yamaguchi Ken
- پارێزگای یاماگوچی
- យ៉ាម៉ាហ្គឹឈិ(ខេត្ត)
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