1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Fukuoka, Japan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Fukuoka—1,612,392, Asia/Tokyo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Fukuoka prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Fukuoka is GeoNames ID 1863967. Its recorded administrative path is Fukuoka-shi → Fukuoka → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Fukuoka occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-01-20; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Fukuoka ranks 282 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 6; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 163. Its 1,612,392 population value is 2.09 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 1.60 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Fukuoka falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Fukuoka's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Fukuoka's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kitakyūshū at 48.913 km with 940,978 recorded people; Kumamoto at 91.937 km with 738,907 recorded people; Kotō at 96.325 km with 543,730 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 47.412 km. Compared with Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka's recorded population is 1.71 times as large. Against Fukuoka, Kitakyūshū follows Kitakyushu-shi → Fukuoka → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Fukuoka's. Against Fukuoka, Kumamoto follows Kumamoto Shi → Kumamoto → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Fukuoka's. Against Fukuoka, Kotō follows Kumamoto Shi → Kumamoto → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Fukuoka's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 425 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Fukuoka's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1863967, the coordinate pair 33.6000 / 130.4167, country rank 6 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1859307 at 48.913 km bind Fukuoka to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Fukuoka's reference point is 33.6000° north and 130.4167° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Fukuoka's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Fukuoka's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Fukuoka's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Fukuoka, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Fukuoka's closest other entries in this atlas are Kitakyūshū (48.913 km), Kumamoto (91.937 km), Kotō (96.325 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-01-20; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.