Yukuhashi行橋市
Yukuhashi-shi. The name ends in 市 (shi), the word for city.
Yukuhashi (行橋市, Yukuhashi-shi) is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture. Population 71,426 (2020 census), area 70.06 km². Borders 4 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
- 行橋市
- Reading
- Yukuhashi-shi
- Kind
- City (市): a local government
- Prefecture
- Fukuoka 福岡県
- Region
- Kyūshū-Okinawa 九州・沖縄
- Population
- 71,426 (2020 census)
- Change since 2015
- +1.2% from 70,586
- Area
- 70.06 km²
- Density
- 1,019 people per km²
- Households
- 30,477
- Under 15
- 13.2%
- 65 and over
- 30.6%
- Foreign residents
- 648 (0.9%)
- Code
- 40213 (団体コード, the municipality code)
- Website
- www.city.yukuhashi.fukuoka.jp
- Wikipedia
- English / 日本語
Neighbouring municipalities
4 places share a land border with Yukuhashi. Borders across water are not counted.
Questions about Yukuhashi
- Is Yukuhashi a city or a prefecture?
- Yukuhashi (行橋市) 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 Yukuhashi?
- Yukuhashi 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 Yukuhashi?
- 71,426 at the 2020 census, up 1.2% from 70,586 in 2015. The area is 70.06 km², which is 1,019 people per km². 30,477 households. 30.6% of residents are 65 or older and 13.2% are under 15.
- Which municipalities border Yukuhashi?
- Four: Kokuraminami Ward (小倉南区) of Kitakyushu, Kanda Town (苅田町), Miyako Town (みやこ町), and Chikujo Town (築上町). These are the municipalities that share a land border with Yukuhashi in the boundary data. Borders across water are not counted.
- How is Yukuhashi written in Japanese?
- 行橋市, read Yukuhashi-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 Yukuhashi begin?
- 福岡県行橋市… (Fukuoka-ken, Yukuhashi-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.