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Fukui prefecture

Fukui Prefecture
福井県
Prefecture
Japanese transcription(s)
 • Japanese 福井県
 • Rōmaji Fukui-ken
Flag of Fukui Prefecture
Flag
Official logo of Fukui Prefecture
Symbol of Fukui Prefecture
Location of Fukui Prefecture
Country Japan
Region Chūbu (Hokuriku)
Island Honshū
Capital Fukui
Government
 • Governor Issei Nishikawa
Area
 • Total 4,188.99 km2 (1,617.38 sq mi)
Area rank 34th
Population (June 1, 2013)
 • Total 795,437
 • Rank 43rd
 • Density 189.93/km2 (491.9/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code JP-18
Districts 7
Municipalities 17
Flower Narcissus (Narcissus tazetta)
Tree Pine tree (Pinus)
Bird Dusky thrush (Turdus naumanni)
Website www.pref.fukui.jp/english/

Fukui Prefecture (福井県 Fukui-ken?) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Fukui.

The Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, on the Sugiyama River within the city limits of Katsuyama, has yielded animals such as the megaraptoran Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis, hadrosauroid Fukuisaurus tetoriensis, coelurosaurian Fukuivenator paradoxus and titanosauriform Fukuititan nipponensis as well as an unnamed dromaeosaurid.

Fukui originally consisted of the old provinces of Wakasa and Echizen, before the prefecture was formed in 1871.

During the Edo period, the daimyō of the region was surnamed Matsudaira, and was a descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu.


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