Ōita大分県
Ōita-ken·おおいたけん·県 (ken), prefecture
North-eastern Kyūshū, with more hot spring water than any other prefecture, mostly at Beppu and Yufuin.
Facts
- Japanese name
- 大分県
- Reading
- Ōita-ken / おおいたけん
- Region
- Kyūshū-Okinawa 九州・沖縄
- Capital
- Ōita 大分市
- Population
- 1,123,852 (2020 census)
- Area
- 6,341 km²
- Density
- 177 people per km²
- Municipalities
- 18 — 14 cities, 3 towns, and 1 villages
- Designated cities
- None
- Districts (郡)
- 3
- Codes
- JIS 44·ISO 3166-2 JP-44
How an address here begins
大分県大分市…
Ōita-ken, Oita-shi, …
The prefecture comes first, then the municipality. The guide explains the rest of the address, and the map reads any address you paste into it.
Neighbouring prefectures
Every municipality in Ōita市区町村
18 local governments, each with its own mayor and assembly. Every one links to its boundary on the map.
Cities市
Districts, with their towns and villages郡 · 町 · 村
A district is a name that groups towns and villages in an address. It has no office and no election. The towns and villages are governments.
Boundaries: MLIT 国土数値情報. Population: 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). Municipality counts are from the boundary data on the map.