Ashiya

town in Onga district, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan

Place town_of_japan Q725518

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of: town of Japan
Inception: June 10, 1891, April 1, 1889^[9]^[10]
Official website: www.town.ashiya.lg.jp, www.town.ashiya.lg.jp^[11]
Official name: 芦屋村, 芦屋町^[16]

Location

Country: Japan^[4]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 33.894°, 130.664°
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Fukuoka Prefecture, Onga district^[2]^[3]
Shares border with: Kitakyūshū, Okagaki, Onga, Mizumaki^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Population and size

Area: +11.60^[19]
Population: 15k (14k–15k, n=3)^[12]^[13]^[14]

More facts +4

Associated electoral district: Fukuoka 8th district^[20]
Legal form: ordinary local public entity^[17]
Name in kana: あしやまち^[18]
Replaces: 山鹿村^[15]

🏷️ Also known as

en Ashiya ar آشيا cs Ašija fa آشیا، فوکوئوکا hu Asija ja 芦屋村 ja 芦屋町 ko 아시야정 ms Ashiya, Fukuoka pl Ashiya (Fukuoka) ru Асия (посёлок) th อาชิยะ uk Ашія zh 蘆屋町

🔖 Identifiers · 20

VIAF cluster ID: 259025083
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Ashiya Town Hall Fukuoka 2026-03 ac.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID: 17378
Corporate Number (Japan): 4000020403814
Dantai code: 403814
Facebook username: ashiyamati.assy
Freebase ID: /m/02ffcj
GNS Unique Feature ID: -225928
GeoLOD ID: YqU2Co
GeoNLP ID (obsolete): f8r56d
GeoNames ID: 1864986
INaturalist place ID: 33486

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Instagram username: assy_ashiya
Museum-digital place ID: 23887
MusicBrainz area ID: 3003f728-2040-469a-98a9-3f3c4f120fd0
NDL Authority ID: 00371471
OpenCorporates ID: jp/4000020403814
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 4008299
Topic's main category: Category:Ashiya, Fukuoka
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJwX4tXMVqFtyByKbDV3cP

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🔗 Connections

Shares border with 4

Kitakyūshū, Mizumaki, Okagaki, Onga

← Shares border with 4

Kitakyūshū, Mizumaki, Okagaki, Onga

Located in the administrative territorial entity 2

Fukuoka Prefecture, Onga district

People born here 2

Sunao Yoshida, Chieko Nakanishi

Associated electoral district 1

Fukuoka 8th district

Contained subdivisions 1

Ashiya Air Field

Country 1

Japan

Instance of 1

town of Japan

Located in time zone 1

UTC+09:00

Topic's main category 1

Category:Ashiya, Fukuoka

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Category:Ashiya, Fukuoka

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Onga district

← Location of creation 1

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Summary

Ashiya is a town of Japan^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[4] ↑ Ashiya — country (P17): Japan. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Ashiya — shares border with (P47): Kitakyūshū-shi. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Ashiya — shares border with (P47): Okagaki. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Ashiya — shares border with (P47): Onga. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Ashiya — shares border with (P47): Mizumaki. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Ashiya — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Fukuoka Prefecture. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Ashiya — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Onga district. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Ashiya — inception (P571): June 10, 1891. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Ashiya — inception (P571): April 1, 1889. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Ashiya — official website (P856): https://www.town.ashiya.lg.jp/. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Ashiya — population (P1082): 13,559. ckan.open-governmentdata.org. Retrieved 2020-11-15. ckan.open-governmentdata.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Ashiya — population (P1082): 14,208. e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-17. e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Ashiya — population (P1082): 15,369. e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-17. e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Ashiya — replaces (P1365): 山鹿村. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Ashiya — official name (P1448): 芦屋町. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Ashiya — legal form (P1454): ordinary local public entity. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Ashiya — name in kana (P1814): あしやまち. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Ashiya — area (P2046): 11.60 km². wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Ashiya — associated electoral district (P7938): Fukuoka 8th district. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Ashiya is an instance of town of Japan (Q1059478) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Associated electoral district → Fukuoka 8th district

Located in the administrative territorial entity → Fukuoka Prefecture, Onga district

Official website → http://www.town.ashiya.lg.jp/, https://www.town.ashiya.lg.jp/

Inception → —

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