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Ube City
Yamaguchi Prefecture · City
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Ube City faces the Suo-nada Sea. From the Meiji era onward, the city grew through coal mining at the Ube coal mines, and the chemical industry flourished in this company town of UBE (formerly Ube Industries). Tokiwa Park, around Lake Tokiwa, has a zoo and outdoor sculptures. The Watanabe Memorial Hall by architect Togo Murano is an Important Cultural Property.
Key facts
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Yamaguchi Prefecture
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