Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū Region, Japan
🇯🇵 izuka (飯塚市, Iizuka-shi) is a city located at the confluence of the Honami and Onga rivers in central Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on January 20, 1932.
History Iizuka was an important post-station on the Nagasaki Kaidō during the Edo Era. As Japan industrialised, Iizuka became the centre of the most productive coal fields in Japan located throughout the surrounding Chikuho district. After the end of Second World War there was a large influx of people into the city as it was one of the few areas that offered a large number of jobs in the coal mines and related fields. Since the coal mines closed, Iizuka City has suffered from a consistently declining population base. However, its proximity to both Fukuoka City and Kitakyushu City cushioned the effect of the coal industry shutdown and kept the local economy from going into freefall. Now Iizuka has a strong light industrial base and is a centre for education and a rapidly expanding IT economy.
Geography and demographics On March 26, 2006, Iizuka absorbed the towns of Chikuho, Honami, Kaita and Shōnai (all from Kaho District) to create the new and expanded city of Iizuka. The city has an estimated population density of 607.35 persons per km². The total area is 214.07 km².
Primary and secondary schools The city formerly had a North Korean school, Chikuho Korean Elementary School (筑豊朝鮮初級学校).
Asia/Tokyo/Fukuoka_Prefecture
Iizuka has a population of over 130,015 people. Iizuka also forms one of the centres of the wider Fukuoka Prefecture which has a population of over 5,590,378 people.
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🇯🇵 Higashi 130.417,33.6 d: 25.2
🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 130.875,33.883 d: 31.4
🇯🇵 Fukuoka 130.384,33.583 d: 28.7
🇯🇵 Tosu 130.515,33.361 d: 35.7
🇯🇵 Kurume 130.517,33.317 d: 40.1
🇯🇵 Shimonoseki 130.933,33.95 d: 40.6
Antipodal to: Iizuka -49.317,-33.65
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🇧🇷 Pelotas -52.341,-31.763 d: 19662.8
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🇧🇷 Alvorada -51.079,-30.001 d: 19576.5
🇧🇷 Gravataí -50.983,-29.933 d: 19572.8
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre -51.229,-30.028 d: 19573.7
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