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Miyagi Prefecture is in the northeastern region of the main island . On 11th March 2011 the prefecture was hit by an earthquake with a 9.0 magnitude followed by a tsunami and several aftershocks.
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is the largest city in the region of 's island, with around 1 million people. It is the capital of Miyagi prefecture. As everyone here will tell you, "Sendai is not too big and not too small, it's very convenient and it's close to both the sea and the mountains." hot springs area of the city has a separate article.

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is a city in Miyagi. It has a population of around 165,000 people. Its islands, and have separate articles.

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is a city in Miyagi, . It is home to the only shark museum in the country. There you can try a shark fin burger or various other delicacies of the city.

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is a small town in Miyagi prefecture, northeastern . The town faces Bay, famous for some 260 tiny islands covered in pines — hence the name — and ranked as one of Japan's Three Great Views.

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is a small island in , Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It lies in the Pacific Ocean off the , to the north of .

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Zaō is a town located in Miyagi Prefecture, . As of 31 March 2020, the town had an estimated population of 11,790, and a population density of 77 persons per km2 in 4,493 households. The total area of the town is 152.84 square kilometres.

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is a town located in south-central , , in . It is known for its vast reclaimed land and tidal flats of the .As of 31 May 2024, the town had an estimated population of 20,790, and a population density of 210 persons per km².

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is a small mountainous island at the tip of the Oshika Peninsula, part of City. It's not far from , Miyagi, .

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is a small town in Osaki, Miyagi, known for ancient hot springs. Nestled in the mountainous backbone of , is located entirely within the Kurikoma Quasi-National Park.

Miyagi

Latitude of center
38.388° or 38° 23′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
140.9761° or 140° 58′ 34″ east
Population
2,300,000
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752184862
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
2111888
Wiki­data ID
Q47896
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Miyagi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Miyagi”
  • Afrikaans: “Miyagi Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Miyagi-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “محافظة مياغي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ميياغي”
  • Arabic: “مياغي”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Miyagi”
  • Armenian: “Միյագի”
  • Asturian: “Miyagi (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Miyagi (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Miyagi”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Miyagi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Miyaqi prefekturası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Miyaqi”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Miyagi”
  • Bashkir: “Мияги (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Мияги”
  • Basque: “Miyagi prefektura”
  • Basque: “Miyagi”
  • Belarusian: “Міягі (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Міягі (прэфэктура)”
  • Belarusian: “Міягі”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Міягі”
  • Belarusian: “прэфэктура Міягі”
  • Bengali: “মিয়াগি প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Мияги”
  • Burmese: “မိယဂိခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Miyagi”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Miyagi”
  • Cebuano: “Miyagi-ken”
  • Central Bikol: “Prepekturang Miyagi”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای میاگی”
  • Central Kurdish: “مییاگی”
  • Chechen: “Мияги (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Мияги”
  • Chinese: “Miyagi-koān”
  • Chinese: “宫城县”
  • Chinese: “宮城”
  • Chinese: “宮城縣”
  • Croatian: “Miyagi”
  • Czech: “prefektura Mijagi”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Mijagi”
  • Danish: “Miyagi præfektur”
  • Danish: “Miyagi-ken”
  • Danish: “Miyagi-præfekturet”
  • Danish: “Miyagi”
  • Danish: “Præfektur Miyagi”
  • Danish: “宮城県”
  • Dutch: “Miyagi”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Mijagi”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Mijagi”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Miyagi”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Miyagi”
  • Esperanto: “Mijagi”
  • Esperanto: “Miyagi”
  • Estonian: “Miyagi prefektuur”
  • Extremaduran: “Miyagi prefectur”
  • Extremaduran: “Prefetura de Miyagi”
  • Finnish: “Miyagi-ken”
  • Finnish: “Miyagi”
  • Finnish: “Miyagin prefektuuri”
  • French: “Miyagi”
  • French: “préfecture de Miyagi”
  • French: “Préfecture de Miyagi”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Miyagi”
  • Gan Chinese: “宮城縣”
  • Georgian: “მიაგი”
  • Georgian: “მიაგის პრეფექტურა”
  • Georgian: “მიიაგი”
  • Georgian: “მიიაგის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-04”
  • German: “Miyagi”
  • German: “Präfektur Miyagi”
  • Greek: “Μιγιάγκι”
  • Gujarati: “મિયાગી પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Miyagi-yen”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מיאגי”
  • Hebrew: “מיאגי”
  • Hindi: “मियागी प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Mijagi prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Miyagi”
  • Iloko: “Prefectura ti Miyagi”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Miyagi”
  • Indonesian: “Miyagi”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Miyagi”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Miyagi”
  • Italian: “Miyagi”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Miyagi”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Miyagi”
  • Japanese: “Miyagi-ken”
  • Japanese: “みやぎけん”
  • Japanese: “ミヤギケン”
  • Japanese: “宮城”
  • Japanese: “宮城県”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಯಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಯಾಗಿ”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តមីយ៉ាហ្គិ”
  • Korean: “미야기 현”
  • Korean: “미야기현”
  • Latvian: “Mijagi prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “宮城縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Mijagi prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Mijagio prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Miyagi prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Мијаги”
  • Malay: “Miyagi”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Miyagi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯤꯌꯥꯒꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “मियागी प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “मियागी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Miyagi-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Miyagi Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Miyagi-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Miyagi-kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “მიაგიშ პრეფექტურა”
  • Mongolian: “Мияги”
  • Nepali: “मियागी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Miyagi-ken”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Miyagi”
  • Northern Sami: “Miyagi prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Miyagi prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Miyagi prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Miyagi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Miyagi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prefectura de Miyagi”
  • Ossetian: “Мияги (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Мияги”
  • Pampanga: “Miyagi Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Miyagi”
  • Persian: “استان میاگی”
  • Polish: “Miyagi”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Miyagi”
  • Portuguese: “Miyagi”
  • Portuguese: “Miyagui”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Miyagi”
  • Romanian: “Miyagi”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Miyagi”
  • Russian: “Мияги”
  • Samogitian: “Mijagi prefektūra”
  • Samogitian: “Mijāgi prefektūra”
  • Scots: “Miyagi Prefectur”
  • Scots: “Miyagi Prefecture”
  • Serbian: “Мијаги”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Мијаги”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mijagi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Miyagi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Mijagi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Miyagi”
  • Sinhala: “මියාගි ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “මියාගී ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Mijagi”
  • Slovenian: “JP-04”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Mijagi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میاقی اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Miyagi Japon”
  • Spanish: “Miyagi Japón”
  • Spanish: “Miyagi”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Miyagi”
  • Sundanese: “Miyagi Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Miyagi”
  • Swedish: “Miyagi prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Miyagi”
  • Tagalog: “Miyagi Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Miyagi”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Miyagi”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Мияги”
  • Tamil: “மியாகி ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Мияги (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Мияги”
  • Telugu: “మియాగీ ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดมิยะงิ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดมิยากิ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดมิยางิ”
  • Turkish: “Miyagi prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Miyagi”
  • Uighur: “مىياگى ناھىيىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Міяґі”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Міягі”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Міяґі”
  • Urdu: “میاگی پریفیکچر”
  • Uzbek: “Miyagi prefekturasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Miyagi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Miyagi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Miyagi Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Miyagi”
  • Welsh: “Miyagi”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع میاگی”
  • Wu Chinese: “宮城县”
  • Yue Chinese: “宫城县”
  • Yue Chinese: “宮城”
  • Yue Chinese: “宮城縣”
  • “Mijagė prefektūra”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Miyagi”. Photo: Ippukucho, CC BY 3.0.