Okawa大川市
Okawa-shi. The name ends in 市 (shi), the word for city.
Okawa (大川市, Okawa-shi) is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture. Population 32,988 (2020 census), area 33.62 km². Borders 5 places.
A city (市 / shi) in Fukuoka Prefecture. It elects its own mayor and assembly, the same tier of government as every other municipality in Japan.
Facts
- Japanese name
- 大川市
- Reading
- Okawa-shi
- Kind
- City (市): a local government
- Prefecture
- Fukuoka 福岡県
- Region
- Kyūshū-Okinawa 九州・沖縄
- Population
- 32,988 (2020 census)
- Change since 2015
- -5.3% from 34,838
- Area
- 33.62 km²
- Density
- 981 people per km²
- Households
- 12,941
- Under 15
- 10.5%
- 65 and over
- 35.9%
- Foreign residents
- 238 (0.7%)
- Code
- 40212 (団体コード, the municipality code)
- Website
- www.city.okawa.lg.jp
- Wikipedia
- English / 日本語
Neighbouring municipalities
5 places share a land border with Okawa. Borders across water are not counted.
Questions about Okawa
- Is Okawa a city or a prefecture?
- Okawa (大川市) is a city (市, shi) in Fukuoka Prefecture. It is a municipality, the lower of Japan's two tiers of local government, and elects its own mayor and assembly.
- Where is Okawa?
- Okawa is in Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県), in the Kyūshū-Okinawa region of Japan. The prefecture is a government; the region is a customary grouping of prefectures and elects nothing.
- What is the population of Okawa?
- 32,988 at the 2020 census, down 5.3% from 34,838 in 2015. The area is 33.62 km², which is 981 people per km². 12,941 households. 35.9% of residents are 65 or older and 10.5% are under 15.
- Which municipalities border Okawa?
- Five: Kurume City (久留米市), Yanagawa City (柳川市), Oki Town (大木町), Saga City (佐賀市) in Saga, and Kanzaki City (神埼市) in Saga. These are the municipalities that share a land border with Okawa in the boundary data. Borders across water are not counted.
- How is Okawa written in Japanese?
- 大川市, read Okawa-shi. The last character, 市 (shi), is the word for city, and the name is often used without it in English.
- How does an address in Okawa begin?
- 福岡県大川市… (Fukuoka-ken, Okawa-shi, …). The prefecture name is written first, then the city name. After that are written the named area, the chōme, the block, and the building number.
Boundaries and neighbours: MLIT 国土数値情報. Population, households, and age groups: 2020 Population Census (令和2年国勢調査). Area: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (全国都道府県市区町村別面積調, 2020). Website and Wikipedia links: Wikidata.