Naka-ku
Naka-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 146,563 and a population density of 7,080 persons per km². The total area was 20.86 km².| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 148,000 residents
- Description: ward of Yokohama City, Japan
- Also known as: “Naka Ku”, “Naka ward”, and “Naka-ku, Yokohama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yokohama Chinatown and Yokohama Marine Tower.
Yokohama Chinatown
Photo: Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yokohama Chinatown is located in Yokohama, Japan, which is located just south of Tokyo. It was established in the late 19th century, and has a population of about 3,000 to 4,000.
Yokohama Marine Tower
Lighthouse
Photo: Los688, Public domain.
Yokohama Marine Tower is a 106 metres high lattice tower with an observation deck at a height of 100 metres in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan. The light characteristic is marked by a flash every twenty seconds, whereby the light's colour is alternating red and green.
Yokohama Station
Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yokohama Station is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, serving 760 million passengers a year.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanagawa and Minami-ku.
Kanagawa
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kanagawa-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 230,401 and a density of 9,650 persons per km2. The total area was 23.88 km2. Kanagawa is situated 4 km north of Naka-ku.
Minami-ku
Suburb
Photo: ウェルワィ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Minami-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 197,019 and a density of 15,550 persons per km².
Hodogaya
Suburb
Hodogaya-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of 9,400 inhabitants per square kilometer. The total area was 21.91 km2. Hodogaya is situated 4½ km west of Naka-ku.
Naka-ku
- Categories: ward of Japan, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.4447° or 35° 26′ 41″ northLongitude
139.6421° or 139° 38′ 32″ eastPopulation
148,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
8Q7XCJVR+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 2115186702OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1855916Wikidata ID
Q1141068
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Naka-ku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناكا-كو”
- Azerbaijani: “Naka rayonu”
- Basque: “Naka-ku”
- Catalan: “Naka-ku”
- Catalan: “Naka”
- Cebuano: “Naka-ku”
- Chinese: “中区”
- Chinese: “中區”
- Czech: “Naka-ku”
- Dutch: “Naka-ku”
- Esperanto: “Kvartalo Naka-ku”
- Esperanto: “Naka-kvartalo”
- French: “arrondissement central”
- French: “Arrondissement central”
- French: “arrondissement de Naka”
- French: “Naka-ku (Yokohama)”
- French: “Naka-ku”
- German: “Naka-ku”
- Hebrew: “נאקה-קו”
- Hungarian: “Naka-ku”
- Irish: “Naka-ku”
- Italian: “Naka-ku”
- Japanese: “Naka-ku”
- Japanese: “なかく”
- Japanese: “ナカク”
- Japanese: “中区 (横浜市)”
- Japanese: “中区”
- Japanese: “横浜市中区”
- Korean: “나카구”
- Persian: “ناکا-کو، یوکوهاما”
- Persian: “ناکا-کو”
- Polish: “Naka”
- Portuguese: “Naka-ku”
- Russian: “Нака-ку”
- Russian: “Район Нака”
- Slovak: “Naka-ku”
- Spanish: “Barrio Naka”
- Spanish: “Naka-ku”
- Tagalog: “Naka-ku, Yokohama”
- Tagalog: “Naka-ku”
- Thai: “เขตนากะ”
- Turkish: “Naka, Yokohama”
- Turkish: “Naka”
- Ukrainian: “Нака”
- Ukrainian: “Район Нака”
- Urdu: “ناکا وارڈ، یوکوہاما”
- Urdu: “ناکا وارڈ”
- Venetian: “Naka-ku”
- Vietnamese: “Naka-ku”
- Vietnamese: “Naka, Yokohama”
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