Hiroshima

Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the of . Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 and has a geographic area of 8,479 km2.
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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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is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2023, the city had an estimated population of 459,160 in 214259 households and a population density of 890 persons per km2.

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is a port city in Hiroshima prefecture, . It is the third largest city in the prefecture by population, after Hiroshima and . also administers a number of islands in the , including .

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is a city of 116,000 in Hiroshima prefecture. City is considered to be the birthplace of kendama, a traditional Japanese toy.

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has been called "Japan's hometown", a quiet port city of temples and literature along the .

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is a city in Hiroshima prefecture. There are many sake breweries in Saijo district, one of the towns in Japan famous for the production of sake.

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is a city in Hiroshima prefecture. ’s main points of interest are probably its views over the islands and some beautiful natural spots inland.

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is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2023, the city had an estimated population of 49,106 in 23154 households and a population density of 63 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 778.14 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, . As of 30 April 2023, the city had an estimated population of 23,350 in 12,034 households and a population density of 200 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 118.23 square kilometres.

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is a city located in north-central Hiroshima Prefecture, . As of 1 May 2023, the city had an estimated population of 26,810 in 13,319 households and a population density of 50 persons per km².

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is one of the crown jewels of , and certainly one of its finest views. Located off the coast of Hiroshima, in Hiroshima Prefecture, the serene beauty of the island is an essential coda to that city.

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is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan. It is also known as Usagi Shima because of the numerous feral rabbits that live here and it is for that reason that draws many people here.

Hiroshima

Latitude of center
34.5667° or 34° 34′ north
Longitude of center
132.7536° or 132° 45′ 13″ east
Population
2,810,000
Elevation
529 metres (1,736 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2465611306
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1862413
Wiki­data ID
Q617375
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hiroshima” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Hiroshima”
  • Afrikaans: “Hiroshima Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Hiroshima-prefektuur”
  • Amharic: “ሂሮሺማ”
  • Arabic: “محافظة هيروشيما”
  • Arabic: “هيروشيما (محافظه)”
  • Arabic: “هيروشيما”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Hiroshima”
  • Armenian: “Հերոսիմա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Հերոսիմա”
  • Armenian: “Հիրոսիմա”
  • Asturian: “Hiroshima (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Hiroshima (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Hiroshima”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura d’Hiroshima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hiroşima prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Hiroshima”
  • Bashkir: “Хиросима (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Хиросима”
  • Basque: “Hiroshima”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Хірасіма”
  • Belarusian: “Хірасіма (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Хірасіма”
  • Bengali: “হিরোশিমা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Хирошима”
  • Burmese: “ဟီရိုရှီးမားခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Hiroshima”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura d’Hiroshima”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Hiroshima”
  • Cebuano: “Hiroshima-ken”
  • Central Bikol: “Prepekturang Hiroshima”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھیرۆشیما”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیرۆشیما”
  • Chechen: “Хиросима (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Хиросима”
  • Chinese: “Hirosima-koān”
  • Chinese: “广岛”
  • Chinese: “广岛县”
  • Chinese: “廣島縣”
  • Croatian: “Hiroshima, prefektura”
  • Croatian: “Hiroshima”
  • Czech: “prefektura Hirošima”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Hirošima”
  • Danish: “Hiroshima-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Hiroshima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة هيروشيما”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Hiroŝima”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Hiroŝimo”
  • Estonian: “Hiroshima prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Hiroshiman prefektuuri”
  • French: “Hiroshima-ken”
  • French: “Hiroshima”
  • French: “préfecture de Hiroshima”
  • French: “Préfecture de Hiroshima”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Hiroshima”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროსიმის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Hiroshima”
  • German: “Präfektur Hiroshima”
  • Greek: “Χιροσίμα (νομός)”
  • Greek: “Χιροσίμα”
  • Gujarati: “હિરોશિમા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hiroshima-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kóng-tó-yen”
  • Hausa: “Hiroshima”
  • Hebrew: “הירושימה”
  • Hindi: “हिरोशिमा प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Hirosima prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Hiroshima”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Hiroshima”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Hiroshima”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Hiroshima”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Hiroshima”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshima-ken”
  • Japanese: “ひろしまけん”
  • Japanese: “広島”
  • Japanese: “広島県”
  • Javanese: “Hiroshima”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿರೋಷಿಮಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xirosima prefekturası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xirosima”
  • Kazakh: “Hiroshima”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តហ៊ីរ៉ូស៊ីម៉ា”
  • Khmer: “ហ៊ីរ៉ូស៊ីម៉ា(ខេត្ត)”
  • Kirghiz: “Hiroshima”
  • Korean: “광도 현”
  • Korean: “광도현”
  • Korean: “히로시마 현”
  • Korean: “히로시마현”
  • Lao: “ແຂວງຮິໂຣຊິມາ”
  • Latvian: “Hirosimas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “廣島縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirosimos prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirošimos prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Хирошима”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hiroshima”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯤꯔꯣꯁꯤꯃꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “हिरोशिमा प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hiroshima-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hirosima-koān”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰიროსიმაშ პრეფექტურა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hiroshima (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hiroshima”
  • Northern Sami: “Hiroshima prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiroshima prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hiroshima prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Hiroshima”
  • Oromo: “Hiroshima”
  • Ossetian: “Хиросимæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Хиросимæ”
  • Pampanga: “Hiroshima Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Hiroshima”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਿਰੋਸ਼ਿਮਾ”
  • Persian: “استان هیروشیما”
  • Polish: “Hiroszima”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Hiroszima”
  • Portuguese: “Hiroshima”
  • Pushto: “هيروشيما”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Hiroshima”
  • Russian: “Хиросима”
  • Samogitian: “Hirošimas prefektūra”
  • Scots: “Hiroshima Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Хирошима”
  • Serbian: “Хирошима”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Hiroshima”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Hirošima”
  • Sindhi: “هيروشيما پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “හිරොෂිමා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “හිරෝෂිමා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Hirošima”
  • Slovak: “Prefektura Hirošimy”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Hirošima”
  • Somali: “Hiroshima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیروشیما اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Hiroshima”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Hiroshima”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hiroshima”
  • Swedish: “Hiroshima prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Hiroshima”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ҳиросима”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ҳирошима”
  • Tamil: “ஹிரோஷிமா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tatar: “Хиросима (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Хиросима”
  • Telugu: “హిరోషిమా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฮิโรชิมะ”
  • Turkish: “Hiroşima prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Hiroşima”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Хіросіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Хірошіма”
  • Urdu: “ہیروشیما پریفیکچر”
  • Uzbek: “Hiroshima”
  • Vietnamese: “Hiroshima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hiroshima”
  • Welsh: “Hiroshima”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ہیروشیما”
  • Wu Chinese: “广岛县”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣島縣”
  • “Hirošimas prefektūra”

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