Fukuoka

Fukuoka 福岡
Designatit ceety
福岡市 · Fukuoka City
Frae tap left: Yatai in Nakasu Fukuoka Castle, Hakozaki Shrine Tenjin, Hakata Gion Yamakasa Seaside Momochi an Fukuoka Touer
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Location of Fukuoka in Fukuoka
Fukuoka
Coordinates: 33°35′N 130°24′E
Kintra	Japan
Region	Kyushu
Prefectur	Fukuoka
Govrenment
• Mayor	Soichiro Takashima (syne December 2010)
Area
• Total	340.03 km2 (131.29 sq mi)
Population  (Aprile 1, 2012)
• Total	1,483,052
• Density	4361.53/km2 (11,296.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time)
- Tree	Camphor laurel
- Flouer	Camellia
- Bird	Black-heided Gull
Website	www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/english/index.html

Fukuoka (福岡市, Fukuoka-shi) is the caipital ceety o Fukuoka Prefectur an is situatit on the northren shore o the iland o Kyushu in Japan.

Rankit as the 12t o the warld's maist livable ceeties in the magazine Monocle in 2012, Fukuoka wis praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan settin. It is the maist populous ceety in Kyushu, followed bi Kitakyushu. It is the lairgest ceety an metropolitan aurie west o Keihanshin. The ceety wis designatit on Aprile 1, 1972 bi govrenment ordinance. Greater Fukuoka (福岡都市圏), wi 2.5 million fowk (2005 census), is pairt o the hivily industrialized Fukuoka-Kitakyushu zone as well as Northren Kyushu.

Internaitional relations

Fukuoka haes seven sister ceeties.

• Atlanta, Georgie, Unitit States
• Auckland, New Zealand
• Bordeaux, Fraunce (1982)
• Busan, Sooth Korea
• Guangzhou, Cheenae (1979)
• Ipoh, Malaysie
• Oakland, Californie, Unitit States