Nago
Nago is a city located in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of December 2012, the city has an estimated population of 61,659 and a population density of 293 persons per km2. Its total area is 210.30 km2.Photo: 663highland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kugel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 63,600 residents
- Description: city in Okinawa prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Nago City”, “Nago-chō”, “Nago-machi”, “Nago-shi”, and “Nagu-mura”
- Neighbors: Northern Okinawa
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nago Museum and Nago Castlie Site.
Nago Museum
Museum
Photo: Bérangère444, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nago Museum opened in 1984 in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The collection covers natural as well as cultural history and includes the shell of a giant clam which weighs over two hundred kilograms.
Nago Castlie Site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nago Castle is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nago, Okinawa. It was built in the 14th century and served as the home of the Aji of Nago Magiri. In 1416, the army of Chūzan, led by Shō Hashi, attacked and captured the castle during the invasion of Hokuzan.
Nago
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.592° or 26° 35′ 31″ northLongitude
127.9775° or 127° 58′ 39″ eastPopulation
63,600Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)Open location code
7QR9HXRG+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 568020060OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1856061Wikidata ID
Q117604
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Nago” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناغو، أوكيناوا”
- Arabic: “ناغو”
- Armenian: “Նագո”
- Asturian: “Nago”
- Bengali: “নাগো”
- Catalan: “Nago”
- Cebuano: “Nago Shi”
- Central Okinawan: “ナグー”
- Central Okinawan: “名護市”
- Chechen: “Наго”
- Chinese: “Nago-chhī”
- Chinese: “名护市”
- Chinese: “名護”
- Chinese: “名護市”
- Czech: “Nago”
- Danish: “Nago”
- Dutch: “Nago”
- Finnish: “Nago”
- French: “Nago”
- Galician: “Nago”
- German: “Nago”
- Greek: “Νάγκο”
- Gujarati: “નાગો”
- Hawaiian: “Nago”
- Hebrew: “נאגו”
- Hindi: “नागों”
- Hungarian: “Nago”
- Indonesian: “Nago, Okinawa”
- Indonesian: “Nago”
- Irish: “Nago”
- Italian: “Nago”
- Japanese: “Nago-shi”
- Japanese: “なごし”
- Japanese: “ナゴシ”
- Japanese: “名護”
- Japanese: “名護市”
- Kannada: “ನಾಗೊ”
- Korean: “나고시”
- Latvian: “Nago”
- Literary Chinese: “名護市”
- Lithuanian: “Nago”
- Malagasy: “Nago”
- Malay: “Nago”
- Malay: “ناݢو”
- Marathi: “नागो”
- Mazanderani: “ناگو، اوکیناوا”
- Mazanderani: “ناگو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nago-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nago”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nago”
- Persian: “ناگو، اوکیناوا”
- Persian: “ناگو”
- Polish: “Nago”
- Portuguese: “Nago”
- Romanian: “Nago”
- Russian: “Наго”
- Sinhala: “නගෝ”
- Spanish: “Nago”
- Spanish: “Nagu”
- Swedish: “Nago”
- Tagalog: “Nago”
- Tajik: “Наго”
- Tamil: “நாகோ”
- Tatar: “Наго”
- Telugu: “నాగో”
- Thai: “นาโงะ”
- Tumbuka: “Nago”
- Turkish: “Nago”
- Ukrainian: “Наґо”
- Urdu: “ناگو”
- Vietnamese: “Nago, Okinawa”
- Vietnamese: “Nago”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nago, Okinawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nago”
- Yue Chinese: “名護”
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