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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Takamatsu and Marugame.
Takamatsu
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Takamatsu is a capital city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2022, the city had an estimated population of 414,134 in 190,120 households and a population density of 1,100 persons per km2.
Marugame
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Marugame is a city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the city had an estimated population of 108,541 in 46101 households and a population density of 970 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 111.79 square kilometres.
Higashikagawa
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Higashikagawa is a city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 September 2022, the city had an estimated population of 28,627 in 13689 households and a population density of and a population density of 970 persons per km2.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sanuki and Sakaide.
Sanuki
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Sanuki is a city in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 September 2022, the city had an estimated population of 46,016 in 20847 households and a population density of and a population density of 290 persons per km2.
Sakaide
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Sakaide is a city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the city had an estimated population of 49,439 in 21,347 households and a population density of 530 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 92.49 square kilometres.
Zentsuji
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Zentsūji is a city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the city had an estimated population of 30,780 in 13096 households and a population density of 770 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 39.93 square kilometres.
Naoshima
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Naoshima is an island and town in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Naoshima is famous for its contemporary art museums as well as outdoor contemporary art installations throughout the island.
Shodoshima
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Shōdoshima or Shōdo Island is an island located in the Inland Sea of Japan. The name means "Island of Small Beans". There are two towns on the island: Tonoshō and Shōdoshima, composing the district of Shōzu.
Kotohira
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Kotohira is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the town had an estimated population of 8,105 in 3618 households and a population density of 960 persons per km2.
Teshima
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Teshima is an island located in the inland sea of Japan, between Naoshima and Shōdoshima islands, and is part of Kagawa Prefecture. It has an area of 14.5 square kilometres and a population of about 1,000 people.
Kagawa
Latitude of center
34.248° or 34° 14′ 53″ northLongitude of center
134.0587° or 134° 3′ 31″ eastPopulation
949,000Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1012320203OpenStreetMap feature
place=province
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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”
- Arabic: “كاغاوا”
- Arabic: “محافظة كاغاوا”
- Armenian: “Կագավա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Կագավա”
- Asturian: “Kagawa (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Kagawa (Xapón)”
- Asturian: “Kagawa”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Kagawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaqava prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Kagawa”
- Bashkir: “Кагава”
- Basque: “Kagawa”
- Belarusian: “Кагава, прэфектура”
- Belarusian: “Кагава”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Кагава”
- Bengali: “কাগাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Кагава”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Kagawa”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Cebuano: “Kagawa-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کاگاوا”
- Central Kurdish: “کاگاوا”
- Chechen: “Кагава (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Кагава”
- Chinese: “Kagawa-koān”
- Chinese: “香川”
- Chinese: “香川县”
- Chinese: “香川縣”
- Croatian: “Kagawa”
- Czech: “Kagawa-ken”
- Czech: “prefektura Kagawa”
- Czech: “Prefektura Kagawa”
- Czech: “香川県”
- Danish: “Kagawa-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Kagawa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Kagaŭa”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Kagavo”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Kagawa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Kagawa”
- Esperanto: “Kagavo”
- Esperanto: “Kagawa”
- Estonian: “Kagawa prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Kagawa-ken”
- Finnish: “Kagawan prefektuuri”
- French: “Kagawa”
- French: “préfecture de Kagawa”
- French: “Préfecture de Kagawa”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Georgian: “კაგავა”
- Georgian: “კაგავის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “JP-37”
- German: “Kagawa”
- German: “Präfektur Kagawa”
- Greek: “Καγκάβα”
- Gujarati: “કાગાવા પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hiông-tshon-yen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kagawa-yen”
- 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: “Kagawa”
- Italian: “prefettura di Kagawa”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Kagawa”
- Japanese: “かがわけん”
- Japanese: “香川”
- Japanese: “香川県”
- Japanese: “香川縣”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಗಾವಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តកាហ្គាវ៉ា”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តខាហ្កាវ៉ា”
- Korean: “가가와 현”
- Korean: “가가와”
- Korean: “가가와현”
- Korean: “카가와 현”
- Korean: “카가와”
- Korean: “카가와현”
- Korean: “향천 현”
- Korean: “향천현”
- Latvian: “Kagavas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “香川縣”
- Lithuanian: “Kagavos prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Кагава”
- Malay: “Kagawa”
- Malay: “Wilayah Kagawa”
- Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯒꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “कागावा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “कागावा”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kagawa-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kagawa Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kagawa-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kagawa-kōan”
- Northern Frisian: “Kagawa-ken”
- Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Kagawa”
- Northern Sami: “Kagawa prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kagawa prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kagawa prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Kagawa”
- Ossetian: “Кагавæ (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Кагавæ”
- Pampanga: “Kagawa Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Kagawa”
- Persian: “استان کاگاوا”
- Polish: “Kagawa”
- Polish: “Prefektura Kagawa”
- Portuguese: “Kagawa”
- Romanian: “Kagawa”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Kagawa”
- Russian: “Кагава”
- Scots: “Kagawa Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Kagava”
- Serbian: “Кагава”
- Serbian: “Префектура Кагава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kagava”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kagawa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kagava”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kagawa”
- Sindhi: “ڪاگاوا پريفيڪچر”
- Sinhala: “කගවා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Kagawa”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Kagava”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Kagawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاقاوا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Kagawa Japon”
- Spanish: “Kagawa Japón”
- Spanish: “Kagawa”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Kagawa”
- Sundanese: “Kagawa Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kagawa”
- Swedish: “Kagawa prefektur”
- Swedish: “Kagawa”
- Tagalog: “Kagawa Prefecture”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Kagawa”
- Tagalog: “Prepekturang Kagawa”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Kagava”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Кагава”
- Tamil: “ககவா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
- Tatar: “Кагава (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Кагава”
- Telugu: “కగావా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดคางาวะ”
- Turkish: “Kagawa prefektörlüğü”
- Turkish: “Kagawa”
- Ukrainian: “Кагава”
- Ukrainian: “Каґава”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Кагава”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Каґава”
- Urdu: “کاگاوا پریفیکچر”
- Vietnamese: “Hương Xuyên huyện”
- Vietnamese: “Kagawa”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Kagawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kagawa Prefecture”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kagawa”
- Welsh: “Kagawa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کاگاوا”
- Wu Chinese: “香川县”
- Yue Chinese: “香川”
- Yue Chinese: “香川縣”
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