Hirara
Hirara, was a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on the island of Miyako. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 33,861 and a density of 521.58 persons per km2. The total area was 64.92 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter with 34,400 residents
- Description: dissolved municipality in Okinawa prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Hirara, Okinawa”, “Pїsara”, and “Taira”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Okinawa Prefecture Miyako Industrial High School and Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden.
Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden
Garden
Photo: Paipateroma, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Miyakojima City Tropical Plant Garden is a botanical garden in Hirara, Miyako-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Landscaping began in 1967 on a site that before the war was a forest of Ryūkyū pines.
Miyakojima City Museum
Museum
Photo: Paipateroma, CC BY 3.0.
Miyakojima City Museum opened as the Hirara City Museum of History and Folklore in Hirara, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 1989. Upon the merger of Hirara into Miyakojima in 2005, the museum reopened as the Miyakojima City Museum.
Hirara
- Categories: dissolved municipality of Japan and locality
- Location: Miyakojima Shi, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.80321° or 24° 48′ 12″ northLongitude
125.30298° or 125° 18′ 11″ eastPopulation
34,400Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP HRROpen location code
7QP7R833+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 8585247474OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Hirara” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hirara”
- Chinese: “平良市”
- Czech: “Hirara”
- Dutch: “Hirara”
- French: “Hirara”
- Irish: “Hirara”
- Italian: “Hirara”
- Japanese: “ひらら”
- Japanese: “平良”
- Japanese: “平良市”
- Japanese: “平良村”
- Japanese: “平良町”
- Korean: “히라라시”
- Malagasy: “Hirara”
- Portuguese: “Hirara”
- Serbian: “Хирара”
- Slovak: “Hirara”
- Tajik: “Hirara”
- Tajik: “Ҳирара”
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