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Yamaguchi Prefecture
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Yamaguchi Prefecture is a region located in Japan. It is notable as a historically significant area that has played an important role in Japanese culture and development.
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- Instance of
- prefecture of Japan
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Japan
- Contains
- Hōfu-shi
- Capital
- Yamaguchi
- Population
- 1336522
- Area
- 6110.94
- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time
- Body of water
- Sea of Japan
- Head of government
- Tsugumasa Muraoka
- Shares border with
- Shimane Prefecture
- Highest point
- Mount Jakuchi
- Official website
- www.pref.yamaguchi.lg.jp/foreign/chinese
- Image
- Rurikoji (Yamaguchi), tou-1.jpg
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- replaces
- Chōshū Domain
- Commons category
- Yamaguchi prefecture
- topic's main category
- Category:Yamaguchi Prefecture
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Yamaguchi prefecture
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Commons gallery
- Yamaguchi prefecture
- twinned administrative body
- Navarre
- name in kana
- やまぐちけん
- topic has template
- Template:Yamaguchi
- OpenStreetMap zoom level
- 7
- associated electoral district
- Yamaguchi 4th district
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Encyclopedic overview
Yamaguchi Prefecture (山口県, Yamaguchi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 km (2,359 sq mi). Yamaguchi Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the north and Hiroshima Prefecture to the northeast.
Yamaguchi is the capital and Shimonoseki is the largest city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, with other major cities including Ube, Shūnan, and Iwakuni. Yamaguchi Prefecture is located at the western tip of Honshu with coastlines on the Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea, and separated from the island of Kyushu by the Kanmon Straits.
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