Hikone

Hikone is a city of 113,000 people at the eastern edge of in prefecture, central .
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  • City with about 113,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 100 metres (310 feet)
  • …is also known as “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Description: city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
  • Neighbors:
  • Established: February 11, 1937
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Places of Interest

Discover Hikone Castle and Sawayama Castle.
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Castle
is an Edo-period Japanese castle located…
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Castle
was a castle in the city of Hikone, , .
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Railway station
is a passenger railway station…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maibara.
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is a city in , Japan.

Hikone

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Latitude
35.2744° or 35° 16′ 28″ north
Longitude
136.2597° or 136° 15′ 35″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP HIE
Open location code
8Q7R77F5+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 541403022
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
1862636
Wiki­data ID
Q386635

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hikone” goes by many names.
هيكوناArabic
هيكونا، شيغاArabic
ՀիկոնեArmenian
HikoneAsturian
HikoneBasque
ХіконэBelarusian
হিকোনBengali
ХиконеBulgarian
HikoneCatalan
HikoneCebuano
Hikone-shiCebuano
ХиконеChechen
彥根Chinese
彥根市Chinese
彦根Chinese
彦根市Chinese
HikoneCzech
HikoneDanish
HikoneDutch
HikoneEsperanto
HikoneFaroese
HikoneFinnish
HikoneFrench
Hikone-shiFrench
HikoneGalician
HikoneGerman
ΧικόνεGreek
હિકોનGujarati
היקונהHebrew
हिकोनेHindi
HikoneHungarian
HikoneIcelandic
HikoneIndonesian
Hikone, ShigaIndonesian
HikoneIrish
HikoneItalian
Hikone-shiJapanese
ひこねしJapanese
彦根Japanese
彦根市Japanese
HikoneKalaallisut
ಹಿಕೊನ್Kannada
히코네시Korean
HikoneLatvian
彥根市Literary Chinese
HikonėLithuanian
HikoneMalagasy
HikoneMalay
Hikone, ShigaMalay
हिकॉनMarathi
هیکونه، شیگاMazanderani
Hikone-chhīMin Nan Chinese
HikoneNorwegian
HikoneNorwegian Bokmål
HikoneNorwegian Nynorsk
هیکونهPersian
هیکونه، شیگاPersian
HikonePolish
HikonePortuguese
HikoneRomanian
ХиконеRussian
ХиконэRussian
HikoneSerbian
ХиконеSerbian
彦根市Serbian
HikoneSerbo-Croatian
හිකොනේSinhala
هیکونه، شیقاSouth Azerbaijani
HikoneSpanish
HikoneSwedish
HikoneTagalog
Hikone, ShigaTagalog
HikoneTajik
ҲиконеTajik
ஹிகோனேTamil
ХиконеTatar
హీకోనేTelugu
ฮิโกเนะThai
HikoneTurkish
ХіконеUkrainian
حیکونیUrdu
ہیکونے، شیگاUrdu
HikoneVenetian
HikoneVeps
HikoneVietnamese
Hikone, ShigaVietnamese
HikoneWaray (Philippines)
Hikone, ShigaWaray (Philippines)
彥根Yue Chinese

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