Asuka
Asuka refers to the south-eastern part of Nara Basin, which mostly overlaps with contemporary Asuka Village, in Nara Prefecture.
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- Type: capital of Japan
- Description: former imperial capital of Japan
- Also known as: “Asuka kyo”, “Asuka kyō”, “Asuka no miyako”, “Asuka no Miyako”, “Asuka-kyo”, “Asuka, yamato”, “Asuka, Yamato”, “Asukakyo”, “Asukakyō”, and “飛鳥地方”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Asuka-dera Temple and Takamatsuzuka Mounded Tomb.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kashihara and Sakurai.
Asuka
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Nara, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.4667° or 34° 28′ 0″ north
Longitude
135.8167° or 135° 49′ 0″ east
Open location code
8Q6QFR88+MM
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Asuka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Asuka-kyō”
- Arabic: “أسوكا (ياماتو)”
- Arabic: “أسوكا”
- Asturian: “Asuka”
- Chinese: “飛鳥”
- Croatian: “Asuka, Yamato”
- Croatian: “Asuka”
- Czech: “Asuka”
- Dutch: “Asuka”
- Finnish: “Asuka-kyō”
- French: “Asuka-kyō”
- German: “Asuka-kyō”
- Hebrew: “אסוקה-קיו”
- Indonesian: “Asuka, Yamato”
- Italian: “Asuka-kyō”
- Japanese: “飛鳥京”
- Korean: “아스카”
- Korean: “아스카쿄”
- Persian: “آسوکا-کیو”
- Persian: “آسوکا، یاماتو”
- Polish: “Asuka-kyō”
- Portuguese: “Asuka”
- Romanian: “Asuka, Yamato”
- Romanian: “Asuka”
- Russian: “Асука”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Asuka”
- Slovenian: “Asuka”
- Spanish: “Asuka-kyō”
- Swedish: “Asuka”
- Turkish: “Asuka-kyō”
- Ukrainian: “Асука”
- “אסוקה-קיו”
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