Gifu
Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important strategic role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gifu Castle and Nagaragawa Stadium.
Gifu Castle
Castle
Gifu Castle is a Japanese castle located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Nagaragawa Stadium
Stadium
Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at the Gifu Memorial Center in Gifu, Japan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ginan and Kasamatsu.
Gifu
- Categories: core city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, city of Japan, city for international conferences and tourism, and locality
- Location: Gifu, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.4231° or 35° 25′ 23″ north
Longitude
136.7628° or 136° 45′ 46″ east
Population
404,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP GIF
Open location code
8Q7RCQF7+64
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gifu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غيفو”
- Aragonese: “Gifu”
- Armenian: “Գիֆու (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Գիֆու”
- Asturian: “Gifu”
- Azerbaijani: “Gifu”
- Balinese: “Gifu, Gifu”
- Basque: “Gifu”
- Belarusian: “Гіфу”
- Bengali: “গিফু”
- Bosnian: “Gifu”
- Bulgarian: “Гифу”
- Catalan: “Gifu”
- Cebuano: “Gifu-shi”
- Chechen: “Гифу (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Гифу”
- Chinese: “岐阜市”
- Czech: “Gifu”
- Danish: “Gifu”
- Dutch: “Gifu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيفو”
- Esperanto: “Gifu”
- Estonian: “Gifu”
- Finnish: “Gifu”
- French: “Gifu”
- Galician: “Gifu”
- Georgian: “გიფუ”
- German: “Gifu”
- Hebrew: “גיפו”
- Hindi: “गिफ़ु”
- Hungarian: “Gifu”
- Icelandic: “Gifu”
- Iloko: “Gifu”
- Indonesian: “Gifu, Gifu”
- Indonesian: “Gifu”
- Irish: “Gifu”
- Italian: “Gifu”
- Japanese: “Gifu-shi”
- Japanese: “ぎふし”
- Japanese: “岐阜”
- Japanese: “岐阜市”
- Kazakh: “Гифу”
- Kirghiz: “Гифу”
- Korean: “기후 시”
- Korean: “기후시”
- Latvian: “Gifu”
- Literary Chinese: “岐阜市”
- Lithuanian: “Gifu”
- Malagasy: “Gifu-shi”
- Mazanderani: “گیفو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gihu-chhī”
- Moksha: “Гифу (ошсь)”
- Moksha: “Гифу”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gifu”
- Norwegian: “Gifu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gifu”
- Persian: “گیفو”
- Piemontese: “Gifu”
- Polish: “Gifu”
- Portuguese: “Gifu”
- Romanian: “Gifu”
- Russian: “Гифу”
- Sardinian: “Gifu”
- Scots: “Gifu”
- Serbian: “Гифу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gifu”
- Slovenian: “Gifu”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیفو”
- Spanish: “Gifu”
- Sundanese: “Gifu, Gifu”
- Sundanese: “Gifu”
- Swahili: “Gifu, Gifu”
- Swahili: “Gifu”
- Swedish: “Gifu”
- Tagalog: “Gifu”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Gifu”
- Tajik: “Гифу”
- Tamil: “கிஃபு”
- Tatar: “Гифу”
- Thai: “กิฟุ”
- Turkish: “Gifu”
- Ukrainian: “Ґіфу”
- Urdu: “گیفو، گیفو”
- Uzbek: “Gifu”
- Venetian: “Gifu”
- Vietnamese: “Gifu”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Gifu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gifu”
- Welsh: “Gifu”
- Wu Chinese: “岐阜市”
- Yue Chinese: “岐阜市”
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