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City of Kitakyushu

北九州市
City of Kitakyushu 北九州市
	Kitakyushu is northern city in Kyushu.
	Seven wards of Kitakyushu.
Country	Japan
Region	Kyushu
Prefecture	Fukuoka
Settled	February 10, 1963
Government
• Mayor	Kenji Kitahashi
Area
• Total	487.71 km2 (188.31 sq mi)
Population (June 1st,2008)
• Total	985,016
• Density	2,019.68/km2 (5,231.1/sq mi)
	Calculated population
Time zone	UTC+9 (JST)

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Revision as of 16:23, 27 June 2008

Kitakyūshū (北九州市, Kitakyūshū-shi, meaning "Northern Kyūshū") is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. It is a very important industrial city. It has steel factories, coal mines and car factories. In Japan it is an important city in reducing pollution. It also has an imortant recycling facility. Kitakyūshū has a population of almost one million people. It is on the main Shinkansen line between Fukuoka and Tokyo.

The city was named Kitakyūshū in 1963, after five cities, (Moji, Kokura, Tobata, Yahata and Wakamatsu) were made into one. On August 9, 1945, the United States Air Force planned to drop a nuclear bomb on Kokura. Because of cloud they could not bomb Kokura. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki instead.

Wards

Kitakyūshū has seven wards (ku):

		Area (km²)
Kokura Kita-ku	小倉北区	39.27
Kokura Minami-ku	小倉南区	170.25
Moji-ku	門司区	73.37
Tobata-ku	戸畑区	16.66
Yahata Higashi-ku	八幡東区	36.36
Yahata Nishi-ku	八幡西区	83.04
Wakamatsu-ku	若松区	67.86

Sister cities

Education

Research Institutes / Graduate Schools

Kitakyushu Science and Research Park(北九州学術研究都市)
- Fukuoka University Institute for Recycling & Environmental Control System(福岡大学大学院工学研究科資源循環・環境制御システム研究所)
- Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology(九州工業大学大学院生命体工学研究科)
- The Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems/Information, Production and Systems Research Center, Waseda University(早稲田大学大学院情報生産システム研究科情報生産システム研究センター)