Awa

Awa is a city located in the north-central part of , on the north bank of the Yoshino river. Itano-cho lies to the East, Mima City to the West, Yoshinogawa City to the South, and Kagawa prefecture is located to the North.
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  • Type: City with 34,700 residents
  • Description: city in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Awa (cidade)”, “Awa (província de Tokushima)”, “Awa, tokushima”, “Awa, Tokushima”, “Awa, Tokusyima”, “Ава, Токусіма”, “Ава, Токушіма”, and “اوا، توکوشیما”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: 10 Kirihataji and 09 Horin-ji.

Buddhist temple
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Kirihata-ji is a Kōya-san Shingon temple in Awa, , .

Buddhist temple
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Hōrin-ji is a Kōya-san Shingon temple in Awa, , .

Shinto shrine
Photo: 岩佐 栄三, CC0.
is a Shinto shrine.

Awa

Latitude
34.1021° or 34° 6′ 8″ north
Longitude
134.2976° or 134° 17′ 51″ east
Population
34,700
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Open location code
8Q6P472X+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 309631884
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
11612333
Wiki­data ID
Q791587
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Awa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوا، توكوشيما”
  • Arabic: “أوا”
  • Armenian: “Ավա”
  • Asturian: “Awa”
  • Bengali: “আওয়া”
  • Catalan: “Awa”
  • Cebuano: “Awa-shi”
  • Chechen: “Ава (гӀала, Япон)”
  • Chechen: “Ава”
  • Chinese: “阿波”
  • Chinese: “阿波市”
  • Czech: “Awa”
  • Danish: “Awa”
  • Dutch: “Awa”
  • Estonian: “Awa”
  • Finnish: “Awa”
  • French: “Awa”
  • Galician: “Awa”
  • German: “Awa”
  • Greek: “Άβα”
  • Gujarati: “આવા”
  • Hindi: “आवा”
  • Hungarian: “Ava”
  • Indonesian: “Awa, Tokushima”
  • Indonesian: “Awa”
  • Irish: “Awa”
  • Italian: “Awa”
  • Japanese: “Awa-shi”
  • Japanese: “あわし”
  • Japanese: “阿波”
  • Japanese: “阿波市”
  • Kannada: “ಅವಾ”
  • Korean: “아와시”
  • Latvian: “Ava”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿波市”
  • Lithuanian: “Ava”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Awa”
  • Malay: “Awa”
  • Marathi: “आव”
  • Mazanderani: “آوا، توکوشیما”
  • Mazanderani: “آوا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Awa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Awa”
  • Persian: “آوا”
  • Polish: “Awa”
  • Portuguese: “Awa”
  • Romanian: “Awa”
  • Russian: “Ава (город, Япония)”
  • Russian: “Ава”
  • Sinhala: “අවා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آوا، توکوشیما”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آوا”
  • Spanish: “Awa”
  • Swedish: “Awa, Tokushima”
  • Swedish: “Awa”
  • Tagalog: “Awa, Tokushima”
  • Tagalog: “Awa”
  • Tajik: “Ауа”
  • Tamil: “அவா”
  • Tatar: “Ава (шәһәр, Япония)”
  • Tatar: “Ава”
  • Telugu: “ఆవా”
  • Thai: “อาวะ”
  • Turkish: “Awa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ава”
  • Urdu: “اوا، ٹوکوشیما”
  • Urdu: “عوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Awa, Tokushima”
  • Vietnamese: “Awa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Awa, Tokushima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Awa”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿波”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Ichibacho-Kirihata and Ichibacho-Kozaki.

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