Kobe
Capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Also known as Kobe City · Kobe-shi · Kōbe-shi · Kōbe · Koube-shi · Koube
- Country
- Located in
- Population
- 1,521,707(March 1, 2021)
- , 1,537,272(2015)
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Sources- 1.“System of Social and Demographic Statistics of Japan - Total population (Both sexes)”e-stat.go.jp/en/regional-statistics/ssdsview/municipalityRetrieved 2019-03-17
- , 1,544,200(2010)
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Sources- 1.“System of Social and Demographic Statistics of Japan - Total population (Both sexes)”e-stat.go.jp/en/regional-statistics/ssdsview/municipalityRetrieved 2019-03-17
- Area
- 552M m²
- Head of government
- Kizō Hisamoto(since 2013)
- Founded
- April 1, 1889
- Postal code
- 650-8570
- Website
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
235 statements · 12% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
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Sources- 1.“SISTER CITIES”wacphila.org/public-programming/sister-cities/Retrieved 2026-05-28
- Tianjin(since 1973)
- Native label
- 神戸市 name in kana: こうべし · revised hepburn romanization: Kōbe-shi · script: kanji
- こうべし script: hiragana
- Kōbe-shi script: Latin script
- Shares border with
- Akashi direction relative to location: west
- Miki direction relative to location: north
- Sanda direction relative to location: north, northeast
- Takarazuka direction relative to location: northeast
- Nishinomiya direction relative to location: east
- Ashiya direction relative to location: east
- Inami direction relative to location: west
- Demonym
- Kobéen applies to part: masculine singular
- Kobéenne applies to part: feminine singular
- Replaces
- Ōgo(February 1, 1958)
- Nagao(October 15, 1955)
- Hata(July 1, 1951)
- Dōjō(July 1, 1951)
- Ōzō(July 1, 1951)
- Honjō(October 10, 1950)
- Motoyama(October 10, 1950)
- Mikage(April 1, 1950)
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- Sumiyoshi(April 1, 1950)
- Uozaki(April 1, 1950)
- Yamada(March 1, 1947)
- Arima(March 1, 1947)
- Arino(March 1, 1947)
- Ikawadani(March 1, 1947)
- Tamatsu(March 1, 1947)
- Hasetani(March 1, 1947)
- Hirano(March 1, 1947)
- Oshibedani(March 1, 1947)
- Kande(March 1, 1947)
- Iwaoka(March 1, 1947)
- Tarumi(July 11, 1941)
- Nishigō(April 1, 1929)
- Nishinada(April 1, 1929)
- Rokkō(April 1, 1929)
- Suma(April 1, 1920)
- Minato(April 1, 1896)
- Hayashida(April 1, 1896)
- Suma(April 1, 1896) applies to part: unknown
- Anthem
- municipal anthem of Kobe(since 1951)
- Bring Happiness to the World(since 2021)
- Named after
- kanbe valid in place: Ikuta Shrine
- Member of
- Union of Kansai Governments
- Creative Cities Network(since 2008) subject has role: City of Design
- Social media followers
- 202,000(March 10, 2025) youtube channel id: UCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
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- 196,000(March 9, 2024) youtube channel id: UCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
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- 180,000(February 17, 2023) youtube channel id: UCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
- 131,000(March 18, 2022) youtube channel id: UCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
- 92,000(July 3, 2021) youtube channel id: UCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
- 39,585(March 9, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 301293097
- 202,000(March 10, 2025) youtube channel id: UCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
- IPA transcription
- ko̞ːbe̞ language: Japanese
- Associated electoral district
- Hyogo 1st district(since 1994)
- Hyogo 2nd district(since 1994)
- Hyogo 3rd District(since 1994)
- Hyogo 4th District(since 1994)
- Name in kana
- こうべし applies to part: modern kana usage · reason for preferred rank: most recent value
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- かうべし applies to part: historical kana orthography
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- こうべし applies to part: modern kana usage · reason for preferred rank: most recent value
- Transliteration or transcription
- Kōbe-shi reason for preferred rank: reversibility, default
6
Sources- 1.Stated in BS 4812:1972
- 2.Stated in ALA-LC romanization of JapaneseRetrieved 2025-09-01
- 3.Stated in The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition)
- 4.Stated in The Oxford Style Manual (1st edition)
- 5.Stated in Q135922169Retrieved 2025-10-17
- 6.Stated in Cabinet Notice on the Romanization of Japanese (December 22, 2025)Retrieved 2025-12-22
- Koube-shi
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Sources- 1.Stated in Cabinet Notice on the Romanization of Japanese (December 22, 2025)Retrieved 2026-05-07
- Kōbe-shi reason for preferred rank: reversibility, default
On other databases
88 identifiers linking Kobe across the web's reference databases
- Alvin IDalvin-place:3601
- ArchINFORM location ID1166
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinekobe
- BabelNet ID00049387n
- BBC Things IDf61de1fc-c5d9-4fa6-8157-13034a0fa922
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID15296234c
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDkobe-20
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf12014191
- CiNii Research ID1140845216619510016
- Corporate Number (Japan)9000020281000
- Curlie IDRegional/Asia/Japan/Prefectures/Hyogo/Kobe/
- Dantai code281000
- Daum Encyclopedia IDb01g3911a
- De Agostini IDKōbe
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Kobe
- Facebook usernamekobekoho
- FactGrid item IDQ87410
- FAST ID1207885
- Freebase ID/m/0g3bc
- GeoLOD IDbO2Edw
- GeoNames ID1859171
- GeoNLP ID (obsolete)pU7thn
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7004560
- GitHub topickobe
- GND ID4195257-1
- GNS Unique Feature ID-233828
- Google Maps Customer ID14344634444797079796
- Google News topics IDCAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNR2N6WW1NU0FtcGhLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDkobe
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0035795
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDKobe
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2076008
- Grove Art Online IDT047047
- HASCJP.HG.KB
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30582
- IdRef ID027406253
- INaturalist place ID33915
- Instagram usernamekobecity
- Interlingual Index IDi83618
- ISNI0000000404024501
- J9U entity ID987007561931205171
- Japan Search name ID神戸市
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID6286
- Larousse IDville/Kobe/127701
- Lex IDKobe
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn80022953
- Mapy.com IDosm&id=13207184
- Michelin Voyages IDasie/japon/hyogo/kobe
- Museum-digital place ID24509
- MusicBrainz area ID230b4d56-82b4-4538-84fc-fc8312235e5d
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA01656879
- Namuwiki ID고베시
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/0DD9A649-71FB-40C6-8B7A-624E19772221
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX5747814
- Naver Encyclopedia ID (pre-August 2026)1061746
- NDL Authority ID00257493
- NE.se IDkobe
- NicoNicoPedia word article ID神戸市
- NL CR AUT IDge129600
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1216209
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3923376
- OpenStreetMap node ID721818614
- OpenStreetMap relation ID900329
- OpenWeatherMap city ID1859171
- OSM Name Suggestion Index IDfd4303-56e060
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID神戸市
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID31632
- Quora topic IDKobe-Japan
- RKD thesaurus ID21047
- Routard.com place ID24212
- SNARC IDQ45270
- TasteAtlas IDkobe
- Threads usernamemy.sweet.kobe
- Treccani IDkobe
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana IDkobe
- Tripadvisor ID298562
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10044875
- UN/LOCODEJPUKB
- VIAF cluster ID251133013
- Wellcome Collection concept IDahx2d8g2
- Who's on First ID102031613
- WOEID1117545
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID08944686-n
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJt3YvKxYqdBJXb9RBpF8C
- X (Twitter) usernamekobekoho
- Yale LUX IDplace/dbf0bace-e6e9-481c-9797-22a014e7577c
- YouTube channel IDUCI-keVKj9JGcSG0Ib3TE6OA
- Zhihu topic ID20025581