Kagawa
Kagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 and is the smallest prefecture by geographic area at 1,877 square kilometres.
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Kagawa
- Type: Province with 949,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “gubernio Kagavo”, “Hương Xuyên huyện”, “JP-37”, “Kagava”, “Kagavo”, “Kagawa (prefeutura)”, “Kagawa (Xapón)”, “Kagawa Japon”, “Kagawa Japón”, “Kagawa Ken”, “Kagawa Koān”, “Kagawa Prefecture”, “Kagawa prefektörlüğü”, “Kagawa-kōan”, “Prepekturang Kagawa”, “Tỉnh Kagawa”, “Каґава”, “Кагава, прэфектура”, “კაგავა”, “محافظة كاغاوا”, “가가와”, “카가와”, “카가와 현”, “카가와현”, “향천 현”, and “향천현”
- Neighbors: Ehime, Okayama, and Tokushima
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Shikoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
34.248° or 34° 14′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
134.0587° or 134° 3′ 31″ east
Population
949,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kagawa” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Kagawa”
- Afrikaans: “Kagawa Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Kagawa-prefektuur”
- Amharic: “ካጋዋ”
- Arabic: “كاغاوا”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Armenian: “Կագավա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Կագավա”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Kagawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaqava prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Kagawa”
- Bashkir: “Кагава”
- Basque: “Kagawa”
- Belarusian: “Кагава”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Кагава”
- Bengali: “কাগাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Кагава”
- Burmese: “ခဂဝခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Kagawa”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Cebuano: “Kagawa-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کاگاوا”
- Central Kurdish: “کاگاوا”
- Chechen: “Кагава (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Кагава”
- Chinese: “香川县”
- Chinese: “香川縣”
- Croatian: “Kagawa”
- Czech: “prefektura Kagawa”
- Czech: “Prefektura Kagawa”
- Danish: “Kagawa-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Kagawa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Kagaŭa”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Kagawa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Kagawa”
- Estonian: “Kagawa prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Kagawan prefektuuri”
- French: “Kagawa”
- French: “préfecture de Kagawa”
- French: “Préfecture de Kagawa”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Georgian: “კაგავის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Kagawa”
- German: “Präfektur Kagawa”
- Greek: “Καγκάβα”
- Gujarati: “કાગાવા પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hiông-tshon-yen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kagawa-yen”
- Hausa: “Kagawa”
- Hebrew: “קאגווה”
- Hebrew: “קגאווה”
- Hindi: “कगावा प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Kagava prefektúra”
- Hungarian: “Kagawa prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Kagawa”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Kagawa”
- Indonesian: “Kagawa”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Kagawa”
- Irish: “Maoracht Kagawa”
- Italian: “prefettura di Kagawa”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Kagawa”
- Japanese: “Kagawa-ken”
- Japanese: “かがわけん”
- Japanese: “香川”
- Japanese: “香川県”
- Javanese: “Kagawa”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಗಾವಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kazakh: “Kagawa”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តកាហ្គាវ៉ា”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តខាហ្កាវ៉ា”
- Kirghiz: “Kagawa”
- Korean: “가가와 현”
- Korean: “가가와현”
- Latvian: “Kagavas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “香川縣”
- Lithuanian: “Kagavos prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Кагава”
- Malay: “Wilayah Kagawa”
- Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯒꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “कागावा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “कागावा”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kagawa-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kagawa-koān”
- Nepali: “कागवा”
- Northern Frisian: “Kagawa-ken”
- Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Kagawa”
- Northern Sami: “Kagawa prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kagawa prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kagawa prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Kagawa”
- Oromo: “Kagawa”
- Ossetian: “Кагавæ (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Кагавæ”
- Pampanga: “Kagawa Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Kagawa”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਗਾਵਾ”
- Persian: “استان کاگاوا”
- Polish: “Kagawa”
- Polish: “Prefektura Kagawa”
- Portuguese: “Kagawa”
- Pushto: “کاګاوا”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Kagawa”
- Russian: “Кагава”
- Scots: “Kagawa Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Kagava”
- Serbian: “Кагава”
- Serbian: “Префектура Кагава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kagava”
- Sindhi: “ڪاگاوا پريفيڪچر”
- Sinhala: “කගවා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Kagawa”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Kagava”
- Somali: “Kagawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاقاوا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Sundanese: “Kagawa Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kagawa”
- Swedish: “Kagawa prefektur”
- Swedish: “Kagawa”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Kagawa”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Kagava”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Кагава”
- Tamil: “ககவா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
- Tatar: “Кагава (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Кагава”
- Telugu: “కగావా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดคางาวะ”
- Turkish: “Kagawa”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Каґава”
- Urdu: “کاگاوا پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Kagawa”
- Vietnamese: “Kagawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kagawa”
- Welsh: “Kagawa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کاگاوا”
- Wu Chinese: “香川县”
- Yue Chinese: “香川縣”
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