Kyushu is the third largest and the most southerly island of Japan's Home Islands. Its name means "nine provinces", referring to its traditional provinces of Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen, Higo, Buzen, Bungo, Hyuga, Osumi, and Satsuma; it is now home to Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Oita, Saga, Kagoshima, and Miyazaki Prefecture. Kyushu was traditionally an impoverished mining region, and it became a hotbed of early ultranationalism during the late 19th century and evolved into a stronghold of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party. In 1920, Kyushu had a population of 6,742,000, and it rose to 10,941,000 in 1960 and 11,249,154 in 2018.
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Population in 1836