1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Kitakyūshū, 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 Kitakyūshū—940,978, 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: city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kitakyūshū is GeoNames ID 1859307. Its recorded administrative path is Kitakyushu-shi → Fukuoka → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Kitakyushu 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 2022-09-02; 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, Kitakyūshū ranks 590 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 14; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 344. Its 940,978 population value is 1.22 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.93 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kitakyūshū sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Kitakyūshū's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kitakyūshū's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Fukuoka at 48.913 km with 1,612,392 recorded people; Kumamoto at 117.23 km with 738,907 recorded people; Kotō at 119.738 km with 543,730 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 70.825 km. Compared with Fukuoka, Kitakyūshū's recorded population is 0.58 times as large. Against Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka follows Fukuoka-shi → Fukuoka → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kitakyūshū's. Against Kitakyūshū, Kumamoto follows Kumamoto Shi → Kumamoto → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kitakyūshū's. Against Kitakyūshū, Kotō follows Kumamoto Shi → Kumamoto → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kitakyūshū's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 425 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kitakyūshū'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 1859307, the coordinate pair 33.8518 / 130.8503, country rank 14 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1863967 at 48.913 km bind Kitakyūshū to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kitakyūshū's reference point is 33.8518° north and 130.8503° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Kitakyūshū's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kitakyūshū's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kitakyūshū's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kitakyūshū, 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
Kitakyūshū's closest other entries in this atlas are Fukuoka (48.913 km), Kumamoto (117.23 km), Kotō (119.738 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Kitakyūshū, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2022-09-02; 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.