Fukuoka Prefecture
The Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県, Fukuoka-ken? ) is located on the island of Kyūshū, Japan. The capital is the city of Fukuoka.
History
Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen.
The prefecture has signed friendship agreements with Bangkok, Thailand, New Delhi, India, and Hanoi, Vietnam.
In July 2017, the prefecture was hit by heavy rains, leaving several people missing and dead.
Geography
Fukuoka Prefecture faces the sea on three sides, bordering Saga, Ōita, and Kumamoto Prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across the Kanmon Straits.
As of April 1, 2012, 18% of the total area of the prefecture was designated as natural parks, namely Setonaikai National Park, Genkai, Kitakyūshū and Yaba-Hita-Hikosan quasi-national parks, and also the Chikugogawa, Chikuho, Dazaifu, Sefuri Raizan and Yabegawa prefectural natural parks.
Fukuoka includes the two largest cities of Kyushu, Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, and much of Kyushu's industry. It also includes a number of small islands off the northern coast of Kyūshū.
Cities
Districts
- Asakura
- Asakura
- Haki
- Hoshuyama
- Koishiwara
- Miwa
- Yasu
- Chikujo
- Shiida
- Shinyoshitomi
- Taihei
- Tsuiki
- Yoshitomi
- Chikushi
- Nakagawa
- Itoshima
- Nijo
- Shima
- Kaho
- Chikuho
- Honami
- Inatsuki
- Kaho
- Kaita
- Keisen
- Shonai
- Usui
- Kasuya
- Hisayama
- Kasuya
- Sasaguri
- Shime
- Shingu
- Sue
- Umi
- Kurate
- Kotake
- Kurate
- Miyata
- Wakamiya
- Mii
- Kitano
- Tachiarai
- Miike
- Takata
- Miyako
- Kanda
- Katsuyama
- Saigawa
- Toyotsu
- Mizuma
- Jojima
- Mizuma
- Oki
- Munakata
- Fukuma
- Oshima
- Tsuyazaki
- Onga
- Ashiya
- Mizumaki
- Okagaki
- Onga
- Tagawa
- Aka
- Akaike
- Hooray
- Itoda
- Kanada
- Kawara
- Kawasaki
- Oto
- Soeda
- Ukiha
- Tanushimaru
- Ukiha
- Yoshii
- Yamato.
- Mitsuhashi
- Setaka
- Yamakawa
- Yamato.
- Yame
- Hirokawa
- Hoshino
- Joyo
- Kurogi
- Tachibana
- Yabe