Place:Kyushu, Japan

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NameKyushu
Alt namesKyūshūsource: Family History Library Catalog
Kyūshūsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 306; Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 20
Kyūshū regionsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Kyūshū-chihōsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeRegion
Coordinates33.0°N 131.0°E
Located inJapan     (1905 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands. Kyushu has a land area of and a population of 14,311,224 in 2018.[1]

In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region.

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