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Kyushu is a region with strong economic ties to Asia. For example, Asia accounted for 420 (77.9%) of the 539 overseas expansion cases of Kyushu-Yamaguchi companies from 2010 to 2019, and Asia accounted for 61.1% of Kyushu-Yamaguchi's total exports in 2019, 7.4 percentage points higher than the nation as a whole.
- 36,782.37 km² (14,201.75 sq mi)
- 12,650,847 (as of June 2022)
- 37th
- East Asia
Mar 30, 2021 · Japanese history and legend were made in Kyushu, the country’s southern- and westernmost of its four main islands. Nicknamed ‘Onsen Island Kyushu,’ it’s here Shintō’s sun goddess, kabuki theater, mythical emperors, wealthy trading ports, cloistered foreigners, samurai rebels and one of the earth’s greatest wartime tragedies all ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Kyushu, southernmost and third largest of the four main islands of Japan. It is bordered by the East China Sea to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Kyushu includes, in addition to the main island, nearby islands and the long Ryukyu archipelago stretching out for some 700 miles (1,100 km) to the southwest.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 12, 2022 · Courtesy of JR Kyushu. By Cassandra Brooklyn. July 12, 2022 7:06 AM EDT. Japan’s third largest and most southwesterly island, Kyushu, was the early center of Japanese civilization—much of the ...
Mount Unzen (雲仙岳, Unzen-dake) is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. In 1792, the collapse of one of its several lava domes triggered a megatsunami that killed 14,524 people in Japan's worst volcanic-related disaster.
- Oldest 500 kyr
- February to May 1995
- 1,486 m (4,875 ft)
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Mar 18, 2020 · The Fertility (Abundance) of Kyushu. Kyushu is volcanic, so of course there are lots of hills and mountains. Often when viewed from a distance, there are gentle, rolling foothills and farther away, layers of mountains, getting progressively higher, their flanks folding on each other and covered with lush vegetation in various shades of green, thanks to evergreen, deciduous and bamboo trees.
Kyūshū (九州 Nine Provinces) [2] or Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its name refers to the nine ancient provinces (kuni) into which the island was divided. The mountainous island is composed of a series of volcanic ranges and contains the world’s largest active volcano, Mount Aso.
