Yokosuka (original) (raw)

Yokosuka (横須賀市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan.

It is located at the mouth of Tokyo Bay on Miura Peninsula. Developed amd used as a base by the Imperial Japanese Navy up to 1945, it now has bases of the United States Navy and the Maritime Self-Defense Force of Japan.

As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 431,332 and the density of 4,286.74 persons per km². The total area is 100.62 km².

The Yokosuka Iron Foundry was established on the site of the city in 1865, and in 1866 the French engineer Fran�ois L�ons Verny came to Yokosuka and spent the next ten years supervising the development of shipbuilding facilities. The city itself was incorporated in 1907.

Koizumi Junichiro was born in Yokosuka.