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Hyogo

Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the of . Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 and a geographic area of 8,400 square kilometres.
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Kōbe is a historic port city in the Hyogo Prefecture of . Together with and , it makes up the three-city agglomeration of Keihanshin, Japan's largest after greater Tokyo.

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is a city near the western edge of the region of , which has a World Heritage castle.

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is an industrial city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2022, the city had an estimated population of 455,555 in 223,812 households, and a population density of 9000 persons per km². The total area of the city is 50.72 km2.

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is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, . As of 1 November 2022, the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218,948 households and a population density of 4,800 persons per km².

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is a city in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 305,925 in 137,288 households and a population density of 6,200 people per km2. The total area of the city is 49.42 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, . As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 221,846 in 96,729 households and a population density of 2,200 persons per km².

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is a not-terribly-large island - about the same size as Singapore - that marks the eastern boundary of the of . Thanks to a set of new bridges and a cross-island expressway, most visitors just zip through on their way from to .

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Akō is a city located in southwestern Hyōgo Prefecture, . As of 31 May 2022, the city had an estimated population of 45,747 in 20,563 households and a population density of 360 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 126.85 square kilometres.

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is a city in the northern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2022, the city had an estimated population of 78,348 in 37,769 households and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 697.55 square kilometres.

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is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2022, the city had an estimated population of 28,208 in 13143 households and a population density of 310 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 90.4 square kilometres.

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is a city of 71,000 people in Hyogo. It is home to a reconstructed Edo Period palace castle.

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is a city located in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2022, the city had an estimated population of 28,971 in 12245 households and a population density of 72 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 403.06 square kilometres.

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Shin'onsen is a town located in , Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2022, the town had an estimated population of 12,814 in 4873 households and a population density of 53 persons per km2.

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is an onsen, or hot spring resort in , , located near . This onsen attracts many Japanese because of its easy access from the busy cities in the Kansai metropolitan area including and Kobe.

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is an onsen town in the Kansai region of , and now part of the city of .

Hyogo

Latitude of center
34.9149° or 34° 54′ 54″ north
Longitude of center
134.8607° or 134° 51′ 38″ east
Population
5,470,000
Elevation
203 metres (666 feet)
Inception
July 12th, 1868
Open­Street­Map ID
node 721818138
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1862047
Wiki­data ID
Q130290
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hyogo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Hyogo”
  • Afrikaans: “Hyogo Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Hyogo-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “محافظة هيوغو”
  • Arabic: “هيوغو”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Hyogo”
  • Armenian: “Հյոգո (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Հյոգո”
  • Asturian: “Hyōgo (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Hyōgo (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Hyōgo”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Hyōgo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hyoqo prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Hyōgo”
  • Bashkir: “Хёго”
  • Basque: “Hyōgo”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Хіёга”
  • Belarusian: “Хёга”
  • Belarusian: “Хёго”
  • Belarusian: “Хіёга (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Хіёга”
  • Bengali: “হিয়োগো প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Хиого”
  • Bulgarian: “Хього”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Hyogo”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Hyogo”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Hyōgo”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Hyōgo”
  • Cebuano: “Hyōgo-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھیۆگۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیووگۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیۆگۆ”
  • Chechen: “Хёго (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Хёго”
  • Chinese: “Hyôgo-koān”
  • Chinese: “兵库县/兵庫縣”
  • Chinese: “兵库县”
  • Chinese: “兵庫”
  • Chinese: “兵庫縣”
  • Croatian: “Hyogo”
  • Croatian: “Hyōgo”
  • Czech: “Hyōgo (Japan : prefecture)”
  • Czech: “prefektura Hjógo”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Hjógo”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Hyôgo”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Hyōgo”
  • Danish: “Hyōgo-præfekturet”
  • Danish: “Hyougo-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Hyogo”
  • Dutch: “Prefectuur Hyogo”
  • Dutch: “Prefectuur Hyōgo”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Hiogo”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Hjogo”
  • Esperanto: “Hiogo”
  • Esperanto: “Hjogo”
  • Esperanto: “JP-28”
  • Esperanto: “prefektujo Hiogo”
  • Estonian: “Hyogo prefektuur”
  • Estonian: “Hyōgo prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Hiogo”
  • Finnish: “Hyogon prefektuuri”
  • Finnish: “Hyōgon prefektuuri”
  • French: “Hyōgo”
  • French: “préfecture de Hyōgo”
  • French: “Préfecture de Hyōgo”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Hyōgo”
  • Ganda: “Hyōgo Prefecture”
  • Georgian: “ჰიოგოს პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Hyogo”
  • German: “Hyōgo”
  • German: “Präfektur Hyogo”
  • German: “Präfektur Hyōgo”
  • Greek: “Νομός Χιγκόρο”
  • Greek: “Χιγκόρο”
  • Gujarati: “હ્યોગો પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hyōgo-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pîn-khù-yen”
  • Hebrew: “היוגו”
  • Hindi: “ह्योगो प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Hjógo prefektúra”
  • Icelandic: “Hyogo hérað”
  • Icelandic: “Hyogo-hérað”
  • Icelandic: “Hyogo”
  • Iloko: “Hyōgo”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Hyogo”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Hyōgo”
  • Indonesian: “Hyogo”
  • Indonesian: “Perfektur Hyōgo”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Hyogo”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Hyōgo”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Hyōgo”
  • Italian: “Hyogo”
  • Italian: “Hyōgo”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Hyogo”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Hyōgo”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Hyōgo”
  • Japanese: “Hyōgo-ken”
  • Japanese: “ひょうご”
  • Japanese: “ヒョウゴ”
  • Japanese: “ひょうごけん”
  • Japanese: “ヒョウゴケン”
  • Japanese: “兵庫”
  • Japanese: “兵庫県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Hyogo”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Hyogo”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಗೊ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Korean: “병고 현”
  • Korean: “병고현”
  • Korean: “효고 현”
  • Korean: “효고”
  • Korean: “효고현”
  • Latin: “Hyogoensis”
  • Latvian: “Hiogo prefektūra”
  • Latvian: “Hjogo prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “兵庫縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Hiogas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hiogo prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Hyogo prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Хјого”
  • Malay: “Hyogo”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hyogo”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hyōgo”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍ꯭ꯌꯣꯒꯣ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “ह्योगो प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “ह्योगो”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hyōgo-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyogo Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyôgo Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyogo-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyogo-kōan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyôgo-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyôgo-kōan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyōgo-koān”
  • Nepali: “ह्योगो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hyōgo (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hyōgo”
  • Northern Sami: “Hyōgo prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hyogo prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hyōgo prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hyogo prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Hyogo”
  • Norwegian: “Hyōgo”
  • Novial: “Hyōgo Prefekture”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Hyōgo”
  • Ossetian: “Хиого”
  • Pampanga: “Hyōgo Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Hyōgo”
  • Persian: “استان هيوگو”
  • Persian: “استان هیوگو”
  • Polish: “Hyōgo”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Hyōgo”
  • Portuguese: “Hyogo”
  • Portuguese: “Hyōgo”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Hyōgo”
  • Romanian: “Hyogo”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Hyogo”
  • Romanian: “prefectura Hyōgo”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Hyōgo”
  • Russian: “Хего”
  • Russian: “Хёго”
  • Russian: “Хиого”
  • Scots: “Hyōgo Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Hjogo”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Хјого”
  • Serbian: “Хјого”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hjogo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hyogo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hyōgo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Hjogo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Hjōgo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Hyogo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Hyōgo”
  • Sinhala: “හයෝගෝ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “හ්‍යෝගෝ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Hjógo”
  • Slovak: “Hjógó”
  • Slovenian: “Hjogo”
  • Slovenian: “Hyōgo”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Hjogo”
  • Slovenian: “prefektura Hyōgo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیوقو اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Hyogo”
  • Spanish: “Hyōgo”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Hyogo”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Hyogo”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Hyōgo”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Hyōgo”
  • Sundanese: “Hyogo Prefecture”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Hyogo”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Hyōgo”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hyogo”
  • Swedish: “Hyogo prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Hyōgo prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Hyogo”
  • Swedish: “Hyôgo”
  • Swedish: “Hyōgo”
  • Tagalog: “Hyogo Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Hyōgo Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Hyogo”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Hyōgo”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Hyogo”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Hjogo”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ҳёго”
  • Tamil: “ஹயோகோ ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Хёго (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Хёго”
  • Telugu: “హయోగో ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเฮียวโกะ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเฮียวโงะ”
  • Thai: “เฮียวโกะ”
  • Thai: “เฮียวโงะ”
  • Turkish: “Hyōgo ili”
  • Turkish: “Hyōgo prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Hyogo’daki şehirler listesi”
  • Turkish: “Hyōgo’daki şehirler listesi”
  • Turkish: “Hyōgo”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Хіого”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Хіоґо”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Хьоґо”
  • Ukrainian: “Хьоґо”
  • Urdu: “ہیوگو پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Binh Khố Huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “Hyogo”
  • Vietnamese: “Hyōgo”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Hyogo”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Hyōgo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hyōgo Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hyogo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hyōgo”
  • Welsh: “Hyogo-ken”
  • Welsh: “Hyōgo”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ہیوگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “兵库县”
  • Yue Chinese: “兵库县”
  • Yue Chinese: “兵庫”
  • Yue Chinese: “兵庫縣”
  • “Hyōgo-ken”
  • “兵庫県”

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