Hiroshima

Hiroshima is an industrial city of wide boulevards and criss-crossing rivers along the coast of the . Although many only know it for the horrific split-second on August 6, 1945 when it became the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, it is now a modern cosmopolitan city with excellent cuisine and a bustling nightlife.
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  • Type: City with 1,200,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “An tIoraisme”, “City of Hiroshima”, “Hirochima”, “Hiroschima”, “Hiroshima City”, “Hiroshima Hiroshima”, “Hiroshima-chhī”, “Hiroshima-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”, “Hiroŝima”, “Hirosima-si”, “Hirošimos miestas”, “Hirosyima”, “Ħiroxima”, “Kota Hiroshima”, “Lungsod ng Hirosyima”, “Хиросима Хиросима”, “هيروشيما اليابانية”, “هيروشيما، هيروشيما”, “ولاية هيروشيما”, “இரோசிமா”, “ஹிரோசிமா”, “히로시마”, “히로시마 현 히로시마 시”, “히로시마현 히로시마시”, “広島区”, and “廣嶋”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Hiroshima Castle and Hiroshima.

Park
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, sometimes called Carp Castle…

Railway station
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Station is a major railway station…

Garden
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Shukkei-en is a historic Japanese garden in the city of Hiroshima, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nishi-ku and Minami-ku.

Suburb
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is one of eight wards in the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

Suburb
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is one of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima, .

Suburb
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is the heart of Hiroshima, , .

Hiroshima

Latitude
34.3917° or 34° 23′ 30″ north
Longitude
132.4518° or 132° 27′ 6″ east
Population
1,200,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
HIJ
UN/LOCODE
JP HIJ
Open location code
8Q6J9FR2+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1590291928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1862415
Wiki­data ID
Q34664
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zeeuws—“Hiroshima” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Хиросима”
  • Afrikaans: “Hirosjima”
  • Albanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Amharic: “ሂሮሺማ”
  • Arabic: “هيروشيما”
  • Aragonese: “Hiroshima”
  • Armenian: “Հիրոսիմա”
  • Asturian: “Hiroshima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hiroşima”
  • Balinese: “Hiroshima”
  • Basque: “Hiroshima”
  • Belarusian: “Хірасіма”
  • Bengali: “হিরোশিমা”
  • Bosnian: “Hiroshima”
  • Brahui: “Híroşímá”
  • Breton: “Hiroshima”
  • Bulgarian: “Хирошима”
  • Burmese: “ဟီရိုရှီးမားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Hiroshima”
  • Cebuano: “Hiroshima-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Hiroshima-shi”
  • Central Bikol: “Hiroshima, Hapon”
  • Central Bikol: “Hiroshima”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیرۆشیما”
  • Chechen: “Хиросима”
  • Chinese: “广岛市”
  • Chinese: “廣島”
  • Chinese: “廣島市”
  • Chuvash: “Хиросима”
  • Croatian: “Hirošima”
  • Czech: “Hirošima”
  • Danish: “Hiroshima”
  • Dutch: “Hiroshima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيروشيما”
  • Esperanto: “Hiroŝimo”
  • Estonian: “Hiroshima”
  • Extremaduran: “Hiroshima”
  • Faroese: “Hiroshima”
  • Fijian: “Hiroshima”
  • Finnish: “Hiroshima”
  • French: “Hiroshima”
  • Galician: “Hiroshima”
  • Galician: “Hiroxima”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროსიმა”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროშიმა”
  • German: “Hiroshima”
  • Greek: “Χιροσίμα”
  • Gujarati: “હિરોશિમા”
  • Hausa: “Hiroshima”
  • Hebrew: “הירושימה”
  • Hindi: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Hungarian: “Hirosima”
  • Icelandic: “Hiroshima”
  • Icelandic: “Hírosíma”
  • Ido: “Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Hiroshima, Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Hiroshima”
  • Interlingua: “Hiroshima”
  • Irish: “Hiroshima”
  • Italian: “Hiroshima”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshima-shi”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshimashi”
  • Japanese: “ひろしま”
  • Japanese: “ヒロシマ”
  • Japanese: “ひろしまし”
  • Japanese: “ヒロシマシ”
  • Japanese: “広島”
  • Japanese: “広島市”
  • Javanese: “Hiroshima, Hiroshima”
  • Javanese: “Hiroshima”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿರೋಶಿಮ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xirosima”
  • Kashmiri: “ہِروشیما”
  • Kazakh: “Хиросима”
  • Kikuyu: “Hiroshima”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hiroshima”
  • Kirghiz: “Хиросима”
  • Kirghiz: “Хирошима”
  • Korean: “히로시마 시”
  • Korean: “히로시마시”
  • Kurdish: “Hîroşîma”
  • Latin: “Hirosima”
  • Latvian: “Hirosima”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Hiroxima”
  • Literary Chinese: “廣島市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirosima”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirošima”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hiroshima”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Macedonian: “Хирошима”
  • Magahi: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Malagasy: “Hiroshima”
  • Malay: “Hiroshima”
  • Malayalam: “ഹിരോഷിമ”
  • Maltese: “Hiroshima”
  • Maori: “Hiroshima”
  • Marathi: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Mazanderani: “هیروشیما”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hirosima-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Хирошима”
  • Mongolian: “Хирошима”
  • Nepali: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Nepali: “हिरोसिमा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hiroshima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiroshima”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hiroshima”
  • Norwegian: “Hiroshima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hiroshima”
  • Ossetian: “Хиросимæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੀਰੋਸ਼ੀਮਾ”
  • Persian: “هیروشیما”
  • Piemontese: “Hiroshima”
  • Polish: “Hiroszima”
  • Pontic: “Χιροσίμα”
  • Portuguese: “Hiroshima”
  • Portuguese: “Hiroxima”
  • Pushto: “هیروشیما”
  • Quechua: “Hiroshima”
  • Romanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Romanian: “Hiroșima”
  • Russian: “Хиросима”
  • Rusyn: “Гирошима”
  • Sardinian: “Hiroshima”
  • Scots: “Hiroshima”
  • Serbian: “Хирошима”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hiroshima”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hirošima”
  • Sicilian: “Hiroshima”
  • Silesian: “Hiroszima”
  • Sinhala: “හිරෝෂිමා”
  • Slovak: “Hirošima”
  • Slovenian: “Hirošima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیروشیما”
  • Spanish: “Hiroshima”
  • Sundanese: “Hiroshima”
  • Swahili: “Hiroshima”
  • Swedish: “Hiroshima”
  • Swiss German: “Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Hiroshima”
  • Tajik: “Ҳирошима”
  • Tamil: “ஹிரோஷிமா”
  • Tatar: “Xirosima”
  • Tatar: “Хиросима”
  • Telugu: “హిరోషిమా”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฮิโระชิมะ”
  • Thai: “ฮิโรชิมะ”
  • Thai: “ฮิโรชิมา”
  • Tulu: “ಹಿರೋಶಿಮಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Hiroshima”
  • Turkish: “Hiroşima”
  • Twi: “Hiroshima”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіросіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Хірошіма”
  • Urdu: “ہیروشیما”
  • Uzbek: “Xirosima”
  • Venetian: “Hiroshima”
  • Veps: “Hirošima”
  • Vietnamese: “Hiroshima”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hiroshima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hiroshima”
  • Welsh: “Hiroshima”
  • Western Frisian: “Hiroshima”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیروشیما”
  • Wu Chinese: “广岛市”
  • Yakut: “Хиросима”
  • Yiddish: “היראשימא”
  • Yoruba: “Hiroshima”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣島市”
  • Zeeuws: “Hiroshima”
  • “Hiroshima”

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