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Northern Kyūshū (北部九州, Hokubu Kyūshū) is a subregion of Kyūshū.

This northern region encompasses the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Ōita.

History

Before 1963 it was called North Kyūshū (Kitakyūshū, 北九州) until the city of Kitakyūshū was formed. The name of the city means North Kyūshū in Japanese, so to avoid confusion, the name of the region was changed.

It is the most urbanized and industrialized part of the Kyūshū region.

For the purposes of development analysis, the area is construed to include Yamaguchi Prefecture on Honshū. Although Yamaguchi is not part of Kyūshū, it is a functional satellite of the Kanmon Straits Metropolitan Area [ja].

The region is part of the Taiheiyō Belt and comprises the Northern Kyushu Industrial Zone [ja].

See also

• Fukuoka-Kitakyūshū
• Kyūshū
• Southern Kyūshū

Notes

1. Northern Kyushu Rail Pass
2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kyūshū" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 588-589, p. 588, at Google Books,
3. Sakamoto, Hiroshi. (2011). "CGE Analysis of Regional Policy in the Northern Kyushu Area." Kitakyushu: The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD), Working Paper Series Vol. 2011-03

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

External links

• Kyushu Tourism Information, Northern Kyushu maps

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Prefectures	Hokkaidō Hokkaido Tōhoku Aomori Akita Fukushima Iwate Miyagi Yamagata Kantō Chiba Gunma Ibaraki Kanagawa Saitama Tochigi Tokyo Chūbu Aichi Fukui Gifu Ishikawa Nagano Niigata Toyama Shizuoka Yamanashi Kansai Hyōgo Kyoto Mie Shiga Nara Osaka Wakayama Chūgoku Hiroshima Okayama Shimane Tottori Yamaguchi Shikoku Ehime Kagawa Kōchi Tokushima Kyūshū Fukuoka Kagoshima Kumamoto Miyazaki Nagasaki Ōita Okinawa Saga
Category

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