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Aichi

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,461,111 and a geographic area of 5,172.92 square kilometres with a population density of 1,442 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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is the capital and largest city of Aichi prefecture, in the region of . It's not one of Japan's top tourist draws as most tourists just zip through on the bullet train on their way between Tokyo and Kyoto.

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is the largest city in Aichi Prefecture by area, and the sixth largest city in the entire Chūbu region by population. 30 km southeast of , it is best known as the home of Motor Corporation.

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is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2019, the city had an estimated population of 377,453 in 160,516 households and a population density of 1,400 persons per km2.

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is midway between and , in the center of Aichi prefecture. It has a long history, but is best known for being the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The city is sometimes called Owarichinomiya to avoid confusion with other municipalities of the same name, including and in .

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is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the city had an estimated population of 73,420 in 31,276 households, and a population density of 980 persons per km2.

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in Northern Aichi prefecture is synonymous with ceramics in . This city is home to several ceramic artists and companies.

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is an on an artificial island in , 35 km south of in central Japan. The airport covers about 470 hectares of land and has one 3,500 m runway.

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is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the city had an estimated population of 60,206 in 22,576 households, and a population density of 315 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 191.12 square kilometres.

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is an area in the eastern part of city in Aichi prefecture, . is the town where the later part of Komaki-Nagakute Campaign took place in 1584 between Hideyoshi Hashiba and Ieyasu Tokugawa.

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was a town located in Higashikamo District, central Aichi Prefecture, . As of March 1, 2005, the town had an estimated population of 9,699 and a population density of 50.25 persons per km2.
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Aichi

Latitude of center
35.1802° or 35° 10′ 49″ north
Longitude of center
136.9066° or 136° 54′ 24″ east
Population
7,550,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1865694
Wiki­data ID
Q80434
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Aichi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Aichi”
  • Afrikaans: “Aichi Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Aichi-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “آيتشي”
  • Arabic: “أيتشي”
  • Arabic: “أيجي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة آيتشي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة آييتشي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة أيتشي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ائيشي”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Aichi”
  • Armenian: “Այչի”
  • Asturian: “Aichi (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Aichi (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Aichi”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura d’Aichi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayçi prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Aichi”
  • Bashkir: “Айти”
  • Basque: “Aichi”
  • Belarusian: “Айты”
  • Belarusian: “Айці (прэфэктура)”
  • Belarusian: “Айці”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Айты”
  • Belarusian: “прэфэктура Айці”
  • Bengali: “আইচি প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Айчи”
  • Catalan: “Aichi-ken”
  • Catalan: “Aichi”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura Aichi”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Aichi”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura d’Aichi”
  • Catalan: “愛知”
  • Catalan: “愛知県”
  • Cebuano: “Aichi-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئایچی”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئایچی”
  • Chechen: “Айти (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Айти”
  • Chinese: “Aiti-koān”
  • Chinese: “愛知”
  • Chinese: “愛知県”
  • Chinese: “愛知縣”
  • Chinese: “爱知县”
  • Croatian: “Aichi”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Aichi”
  • Czech: “Aichi”
  • Czech: “Aiči”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Aichi”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Aiči”
  • Danish: “Aichi-ken”
  • Danish: “Aichi-præfekturet”
  • Danish: “Aichi”
  • Dutch: “Aichi”
  • Dutch: “Prefectuur Aichi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايتشى, اليابان”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايتشى”
  • Esperanto: “Aichi”
  • Esperanto: “Aiĉi prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Aiĉi-prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Aiĉi”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Aichi”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Aiĉi”
  • Estonian: “Aichi prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Aichi-ken”
  • Finnish: “Aichi”
  • Finnish: “Aichin prefektuuri”
  • French: “Aichi”
  • French: “préfecture d’Aichi”
  • French: “Préfecture d’Aichi”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Aichi”
  • Georgian: “აიტი”
  • Georgian: “აიტის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Aichi-ken”
  • German: “Aichi”
  • German: “JP-23”
  • German: “Präfektur Aichi”
  • Greek: “Άιτσι”
  • Greek: “Νομός Άιτσι”
  • Gujarati: “એચી પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Aichi-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Oi-tî-yen”
  • Hebrew: “אאיצ’י”
  • Hindi: “आइची प्रीफ़ेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Aicsi prefektúra”
  • Icelandic: “Aichi”
  • Iloko: “Aichi”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Aichi”
  • Indonesian: “Aichi”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Aichi”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Aichi”
  • Italian: “Aichi”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Aichi”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Aichi”
  • Japanese: “あいちけん”
  • Japanese: “愛知”
  • Japanese: “愛知県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Aichi”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Aichi”
  • Kannada: “ಐಚಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តអៃឈិ”
  • Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត អៃឈិ”
  • Khmer: “អៃឈិ(ខេត្ត)”
  • Korean: “아이찌 현”
  • Korean: “아이찌현”
  • Korean: “아이치 현”
  • Korean: “아이치현”
  • Korean: “애지 현”
  • Korean: “애지현”
  • Latvian: “Aiči prefektūra”
  • Latvian: “Aiči”
  • Literary Chinese: “愛知縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Aichi prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Aiči prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Aičio prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Ајчи”
  • Malay: “Aichi”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Aichi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯥꯢꯆꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “ऐची प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “ऐची”
  • Mazanderani: “آیچی استان”
  • Mazanderani: “آیچی”
  • Mazanderani: “استان آیچی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Aichi-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aichi-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aiti Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aiti-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aiti-kōan”
  • Moksha: “Айчи”
  • Mongolian: “Айчи муж”
  • Mongolian: “Айчи”
  • Nepali: “आइची”
  • Nepali: “जापानको मुख्य द्वीप होन्शूको चुबु क्षेत्रमा अवस्थित एक प्रमुख प्रान्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Aichi”
  • Northern Sami: “Aichi prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aichi prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aichi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aichi prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aichi”
  • Norwegian: “Aichi”
  • Novial: “Aichi Prefekture”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura d’Aichi”
  • Oriya: “ଆଇଚି ରାଜ୍ଯ”
  • Oriya: “ଆଇଚି ରାଜ୍ୟ”
  • Ossetian: “Айти (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Айти”
  • Pampanga: “Aichi Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Aichi”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਇਚੀ ਪ੍ਰੀਫ਼ੈਕਚਰ”
  • Persian: “استان آیچی”
  • Persian: “استان ایچی”
  • Polish: “Aichi”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Aichi”
  • Portuguese: “Aichi”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Aichi”
  • Romanian: “Aichi”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Aichi”
  • Russian: “Аити”
  • Russian: “Айти”
  • Sardinian: “Prefetura de Aichi”
  • Scots: “Aichi Prefectur”
  • Scots: “Aichi”
  • Serbian: “Аичи”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Аичи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aichi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aići”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aiči”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Aichi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Aići”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Aiči”
  • Sindhi: “ايچي پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “අයිචි ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Aiči”
  • Slovenian: “Aiči”
  • Slovenian: “JP-23”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Aiči”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آیچی اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Aichi”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Aichi”
  • Sundanese: “Aichi prefecture”
  • Sundanese: “Aichi”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Aichi”
  • Swahili: “Aichi Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Aichi”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Aichi”
  • Swedish: “Aichi län”
  • Swedish: “Aichi prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Aichi”
  • Tagalog: “Aichi Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Aichi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Aichi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Aichi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Aitsi”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Айти”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Айчи”
  • Tamil: “ஆட்சி பிரேபிக்ச்சர்”
  • Tatar: “Айти (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Айти”
  • Telugu: “అయిచి ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดไอจิ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดไอชิ”
  • Tibetan: “ཨའི་ཆི་ཞེས་པའི་ས་ཁུལ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨའི་ཆི་ཞེས་པའི་སྲིད་འཛིན་ས་ཁུལ།”
  • Turkish: “Aichi prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Aichi”
  • Ukrainian: “Аїті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Аіті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Аїті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Айті”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Айчі”
  • Urdu: “ایچی پریفیکچر”
  • Venetian: “Prefetura de Aichi”
  • Vietnamese: “Ái Tri huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “Aichi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Aichi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aichi Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aichi”
  • Welsh: “Aichi”
  • Western Frisian: “Prefektuer Aichi”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع آیچی”
  • Wu Chinese: “爱知县”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛知”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛知縣”

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