Gunma
Gunma Prefecture, occasionally spelled and always pronounced Gumma, is a prefecture in the Kanto region of Japan. Gunma is a rural part of Japan with hot springs, a safari park, and plenty of hiking.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kiryu and Maebashi.
Kiryu
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Kiryū is a city in Gunma Prefecture in the Kanto region of Japan. Kiryū is the jumping-off point for trips to Mt. Akagi and to the Watarase River valley.
Maebashi
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Maebashi is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of 31 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 335,352 in 151,171 households, and a population density of 1100 persons per km2.
Takasaki
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Takasaki is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 372,369 in 167,345 households, and a population density of 810 persons per km2.
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Ota
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Ōta is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 224,358 in 109,541 households, and a population density of 1300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 60.97 square kilometres.
Isesaki
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Isesaki is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 September 2020, the city had an estimated population of 213,303 in 91,789 households, and a population density of 1500 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 139.44 square kilometres.
Fujioka
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Fujioka is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 64,539 in 27,616 households, and a population density of 360/km2. The total area of the city is 180.29 km2.
Shibukawa
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Shibukawa is a city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 76,098 in 32,439 households, and a population density of 320 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Numata
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Numata is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2020, the city had an estimated population of 46,908 in 20,589 households, and a population density of 110 persons per km2.
Tomioka
Tomioka is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 September 2020, the city had an estimated population of 57,013 in 20,367 households, and a population density of 390 persons per km2.
Tatebayashi
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Tatebayashi is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 74,027 in 34,486 households, and a population density of 1200 people per km².
Kusatsu
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Kusatsu is a famous hot-spring resort town in Gunma, Japan. It is one of the Three Famous Springs in the 17th-century ranking of Hayashi Razan, and remains highly rated and popular.
Nakanojō
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Nakanojō is a town of 15,500 people in Gunma. Nakanojō is surrounded by high peaks of over 1000 m in height, with the Agatsuma River passing through the center of town from west to east. The town's area is 83% mountains and forests.
Minakami
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Minakami is a town in Gunma prefecture. The town, which includes Minakami Hot Spring Village, commands superb views of Mt. Tanigawa, Mt. Hotaka, and Mt.
Tsumagoi
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Tsumagoi is a village located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 September 2020, the village had an estimated population of 9,546 in 3,999 households, and a population density of 28 persons per km2. The total area of the village is 337.51 square kilometres.
Gunma
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Gunma” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Gunma”
- Afrikaans: “Gunma Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Gunma-prefektuur”
- Arabic: “غونما”
- Arabic: “محافظة غونما”
- Armenian: “Գումմա”
- Asturian: “Gunma (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Gunma (Xapón)”
- Asturian: “Gunma”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Gunma”
- Azerbaijani: “Qumma”
- Azerbaijani: “Qunma prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Gunma”
- Bashkir: “Гумма (префектура)”
- Bashkir: “Гумма”
- Basque: “Gunma”
- Belarusian: “Гума”
- Belarusian: “Гуму, прэфектура”
- Belarusian: “Гуму”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Гуму”
- Bengali: “গুন্মা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Гунма”
- Catalan: “Gumma”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Gunma”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Gunma”
- Cebuano: “Gunma-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای گونما”
- Central Kurdish: “گونما”
- Chechen: “Гумма (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Гумма”
- Chinese: “Gunma-koān”
- Chinese: “群馬”
- Chinese: “群馬縣”
- Chinese: “群马县”
- Croatian: “Gunma”
- Czech: “Prefektura Gunma”
- Danish: “Gunma-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Gunma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه جونما”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Gunma”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Gunma”
- Esperanto: “Gunma-ken”
- Esperanto: “JP-10”
- Estonian: “Gumma prefektuur”
- Estonian: “Gunma prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Gunman prefektuuri”
- French: “Gunma”
- French: “préfecture de Gunma”
- French: “Préfecture de Gunma”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Gunma”
- Georgian: “გუმის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Gunma-ken”
- German: “Gunma”
- German: “JP-10”
- German: “Präfektur Gumma”
- German: “Präfektur Gunma”
- Greek: “Γκούνμα”
- Gujarati: “ગુંમા પ્રીફેક્ચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gunma-yen”
- Hebrew: “גונמה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז גאנמה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז גונמה”
- Hindi: “गुनमा प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Gunma prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Gunma”
- Iloko: “Prefectura ti Gunma”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Gunma”
- Indonesian: “Gunma”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Gunma”
- Irish: “Maoracht Gunma”
- Italian: “Gunma”
- Italian: “prefettura di Gunma”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Gunma”
- Japanese: “ぐんまけん”
- Japanese: “群馬”
- Japanese: “群馬県”
- Javanese: “Prefektur Gunma”
- Javanese: “Préfèktur Gunma”
- Kannada: “ಗನ್ಮ”
- Kannada: “ಗುನ್ಮಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តហ្គឺនម៉ា”
- Khmer: “ហ្គឺនម៉ា(ខេត្ត)”
- Korean: “군마 현”
- Korean: “군마현”
- Latvian: “Gummas prefektūra”
- Latvian: “Gunmas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “群馬縣”
- Lithuanian: “Gunma prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Gunma”
- Lithuanian: “Gunmos prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Гунма”
- Malay: “Gunma”
- Malay: “Wilayah Gunma”
- Manipuri: “ꯒꯨꯟꯃꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “गुन्मा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “गुन्मा”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gunma-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gunma Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gunma-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gunma-kōan”
- Northern Frisian: “Gunma (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gunma”
- Northern Sami: “Gunma prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gunma prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gunma prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Gunma”
- Novial: “Gunma Prefekture”
- Ossetian: “Гумма (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Гумма”
- Pampanga: “Gunma Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Gunma”
- Persian: “استان گونما”
- Polish: “Prefektura Gunma”
- Portuguese: “Gunma”
- Romanian: “Gunma”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Gunma”
- Russian: “Гумма”
- Russian: “префектура Гумма”
- Samogitian: “Gonmas prefektūra”
- Samogitian: “Gunma prefektūra”
- Scots: “Gunma Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Gunma”
- Serbian: “Гунма”
- Serbian: “Префектура Гунма”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gunma”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Gunma”
- Sindhi: “گونما پريفيڪچر”
- Sinhala: “ගුන්මා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Gunma”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Gunma”
- South Azerbaijani: “قونما اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Gunma Japon”
- Spanish: “Gunma Japón”
- Spanish: “Gunma”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Gunma”
- Sundanese: “Gunma Prefecture”
- Sundanese: “Préféktur Gunma”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Gunma”
- Swedish: “Gunma län”
- Swedish: “Gunma prefektur”
- Swedish: “Gunma”
- Tagalog: “Gunma Prefecture”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Gunma”
- Tagalog: “Prepekturang Gunma”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Gumma”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Гумма”
- Tamil: “குணமா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
- Tatar: “Гумма (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Гумма”
- Telugu: “గన్మా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “กุนมะ”
- Thai: “กุมมะ”
- Thai: “จังหวัดกุนมะ”
- Thai: “จังหวัดกุมมะ”
- Turkish: “Gunma prefektörlüğü”
- Turkish: “Gunma”
- Ukrainian: “Гумма”
- Ukrainian: “Ґумма”
- Ukrainian: “Гунма”
- Ukrainian: “Ґунма”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Ґумма”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Гунма”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Ґунма”
- Urdu: “گونما پریفیکچر”
- Vietnamese: “Gunma”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Gunma”
- Vietnamese: “Quần Mã”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gunma Prefecture”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gunma”
- Welsh: “Gunma”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع گنما”
- Wu Chinese: “群马县”
- Yue Chinese: “羣馬”
- Yue Chinese: “羣馬縣”
- Yue Chinese: “群馬縣”
- Yue Chinese: “群马县”
- “Gunmas prefektūra”
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