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Gifu

Gifu Prefecture is a region in the central region of the main Japanese island , with around 2 million inhabitants.
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Top destinations include Gifu and Takayama.

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is a city located in the south-central portion of Prefecture, , 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.

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, sometimes called Hida-Takayama to distinguish it from other towns of the same name, is a city near the northern of Gifu prefecture, in the region of .

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is a small/mid-sized city located 10 minutes by train from , the capital of Gifu Prefecture. The population of in 2012 was 164,000.

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is a city located in Gifu, . As of 1 March 2020, the city had an estimated population of 110,070 in 46,580 households, and a population density of 1200 people per km2.

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Gujō is a city located in Gifu, . As of 1 February 2019, the city had an estimated population of 41,858, and a population density of 41 persons per km2, in 15,341 households.

is a city of 79,000 people in Gifu. The post town of is also within , but covered in its own article.

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is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of 31 October 2017, the city had an estimated population of 33,283, and a population density of 39 persons per km2, in 12,253 households.

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or Furukawa is a city located in Gifu, . As of 1 December 2017, the city had an estimated population of 24,726, and a population density of 31 persons per km2, in 8,905 households.

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is a city located in Gifu, . As of 31 January 2018, the city had an estimated population of 58,567 in 24,485 households, and a population density of 500 persons per km2.

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is a city located in Gifu, . As of 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 48,777, and a population density of 96.7 persons per km2, in 19,820 households. The total area of the city was 504.24 square kilometres.

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is a rural town at the western edge of Gifu Prefecture in the region of . It is most famous for the October 1600 Battle of , but its picturesque location nestled in a small valley between mountains, combined with its complete lack of large tour buses, makes it a nice day trip from the larger nearby cities of , , and .

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is a city located in Gifu, . As of 1 January 2019, the city had an estimated population of 89,020 and a population density of 190 persons per km2 in 35,366 households. The total area of the city was 472.33 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Gifu, . As of 31 December 2018, the city had an estimated population of 20,749 in 8149 households, and a population density of 180 persons per km2.

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is a post town in Gifu. One of the most visited places in the , has been beautifully restored as an Edo Era post town and stone walkways line the town.

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is a town located in , Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2018, the town had an estimated population of 27,439 and a population density of 480 persons per km2, in 10,525 households.

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Yōrō is a small town in southwestern Gifu Prefecture, nestled between the farming land of greater Nagoya and the mountains.

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is a town in south-central Gifu. Most of 's attractions are related to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by letting them flee to Japan.

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is a town located in , Japan. As of 1 December 2018, the town had an estimated population of 24,034 in 8291 households and a population density of 620 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 38.80 square kilometres.

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Shirakawa-gō, formally Shirakawa-mura, is a historic village in . Together with in Toyama, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on December 9, 1995.

Gifu

Latitude of center
35.7867° or 35° 47′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
137.0461° or 137° 2′ 46″ east
Population
1,990,000
Elevation
651 metres (2,136 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3416105900
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1863640
Wiki­data ID
Q131277
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Gifu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Gifu”
  • Afrikaans: “Gifu Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Gifu-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “غيفو”
  • Arabic: “محافظة غيفو”
  • Armenian: “Գիֆու (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Գիֆու”
  • Asturian: “Gifu (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Gifu (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Gifu”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Gifu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gifu prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Gifu”
  • Basque: “Gifu”
  • Belarusian: “Гіфу (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Гіфу”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Гіфу”
  • Belarusian: “Прэфектура Гіфу”
  • Bengali: “গিফু প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Гифу”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Gifu”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Gifu”
  • Cebuano: “Gifu-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای گیفو”
  • Central Kurdish: “گیفو”
  • Chechen: “Гифу (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Гифу”
  • Chinese: “Gihu-koān”
  • Chinese: “岐阜县”
  • Chinese: “岐阜県”
  • Chinese: “岐阜縣”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gifu prefektligi”
  • Croatian: “Gifu”
  • Czech: “prefektura Gifu”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Gifu”
  • Danish: “Gifu-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Gifu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيفو (محافظه)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيفو”
  • Esperanto: “Gifu prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Gifu-prefektujo”
  • Esperanto: “Gifu”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Gifu”
  • Estonian: “Gifu prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Gifun prefektuuri”
  • French: “Gifu”
  • French: “préfecture de Gifu”
  • French: “Préfecture de Gifu”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Gifu”
  • Georgian: “გიფუს პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Gifu-ken”
  • German: “Gifu”
  • German: “JP-21”
  • German: “Präfektur Gifu”
  • Greek: “Γκίφου”
  • Gujarati: “ગીફુ પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gifu-yen”
  • Hebrew: “גיפו”
  • Hindi: “जिफू प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Gifu prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Gifu”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Gifu”
  • Indonesian: “Gifu”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Gifu”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Gifu”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Gifu”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Gifu”
  • Japanese: “Gifu-ken”
  • Japanese: “ぎふ”
  • Japanese: “ギフ”
  • Japanese: “ぎふけん”
  • Japanese: “ギフケン”
  • Japanese: “岐阜”
  • Japanese: “岐阜県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Gifu”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Gifu”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿಫು”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಫು ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Korean: “기후 현”
  • Korean: “기후현”
  • Latvian: “Gifu prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “岐阜縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Gifu prefektūra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gifu”
  • Macedonian: “Гифу”
  • Malay: “Gifu”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Gifu”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯤꯐꯨ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “गिफू प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “गिफू”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gifu-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gifu-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gihu Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gihu-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gihu-kōan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gifu (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gifu”
  • Northern Sami: “Gifu prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gifu prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Gifu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gifu prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Gifu”
  • Novial: “Gifu Prefekture”
  • Ossetian: “Гифу (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Гифу”
  • Pampanga: “Gifu Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Gifu”
  • Persian: “استان گیفو”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Gifu”
  • Portuguese: “Gifu”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Gifu”
  • Romanian: “Gifu”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Gifu”
  • Russian: “Гифу”
  • Scots: “Gifu Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Gifu”
  • Serbian: “Гифу”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Гифу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gifu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Gifu”
  • Sinhala: “ගීෆු පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Gifu”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Gifu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیفو اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Gifu Japon”
  • Spanish: “Gifu Japón”
  • Spanish: “Gifu”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Gifu”
  • Sundanese: “Gifu”
  • Sundanese: “Perfektur Gifu”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Gifu”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Gifu”
  • Swedish: “Gifu län”
  • Swedish: “Gifu prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Gifu”
  • Tagalog: “Gifu Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Gifu”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Gipu”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Gifu”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Гифу”
  • Tamil: “கிபியூ ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tatar: “Гифу (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Гифу”
  • Telugu: “గిఫు ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกิฟุ”
  • Turkish: “Gifu prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Gifu”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіфу”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґіфу”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Гіфу”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ґіфу”
  • Urdu: “گیفو پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Gifu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kì Phụ Huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Gifu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gifu Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gifu”
  • Welsh: “Gifu”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع گیفو”
  • Wu Chinese: “岐阜县”
  • Yue Chinese: “岐阜”
  • Yue Chinese: “岐阜县”
  • Yue Chinese: “岐阜縣”

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