Kagawa
Kagawa District is a district located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of the January 10, 2006 Takamatsu merger, the district consists of the single town of Naoshima and has an estimated population of 3,583 and a density of 251.97 persons per km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: County with 3,030 residents
- Description: district in Kagawa prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Kagawa County”, “Kagawa district”, and “Kagawa District, Kagawa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chichu Art Museum and Lee Ufan Museum.
Chichu Art Museum
Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
The Chichu Art Museum is a museum built directly into a southern portion of the island of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was designed by architect Tadao Ando and opened to the public on July 18, 2004.
Lee Ufan Museum
Museum
Photo: 松岡明芳, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lee Ufan Museum is an art museum on Naoshima, an island of Japan, dedicated to the work of Korean artist Lee Ufan. The first-ever museum in the world of such a kind, it was designed as a collaboration between Japanese architect Tadao Ando and Lee himself.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naoshima and Tamano.
Naoshima
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Naoshima is an island and town in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Naoshima is famous for its contemporary art museums as well as outdoor contemporary art installations throughout the island.
Tamano
Photo: Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0.
Tamano is a city located in southern Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 October 2022, the city had an estimated population of 55,889 in 27087 households, and a population density of 540 persons per km2. Its total area is 103.58 square kilometres…
Kagawa
- Categories: district of Japan and locality
- Location: Kagawa, Shikoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.4667° or 34° 28′ 0″ northLongitude
133.9805° or 133° 58′ 50″ eastPopulation
3,030Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)Open location code
8Q6MFX8J+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3085721937OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
1860835Wikidata ID
Q1155934
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kagawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كاغاوا”
- Catalan: “districte de Kagawa”
- Catalan: “Districte de Kagawa”
- Cebuano: “Kagawa-gun”
- Chinese: “香川郡”
- Dutch: “Kagawa District”
- French: “district de Kagawa”
- French: “District de Kagawa”
- German: “Kagawa”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קאגווה”
- Hungarian: “Kagava körzet”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Kagawa, Kagawa”
- Irish: “ceantar Kagawa”
- Italian: “Distretto di Kagawa”
- Japanese: “Kagawa-un”
- Japanese: “かがわぐん”
- Japanese: “香川郡”
- Japanese: “香東郡”
- Japanese: “香河郡”
- Japanese: “香西郡”
- Korean: “가가와군”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kagawa”
- Polish: “Powiat Kagawa”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Kagawa”
- Russian: “Округ Кагава”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Kagava”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Kagawa”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Kagawa”
- Thai: “อำเภอคางาวะ”
- Ukrainian: “Повіт Каґава”
- Vietnamese: “Huyện Kagawa”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include ヘキダム and Chikiri Peak.
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