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Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the of . Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 and has a geographic area of 13,561.56 square kilometres.
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is the capital of prefecture, in the district of . It flourished as a temple city of Zenkō-ji, a famous temple.

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is a city in Nagano at the eastern end of the . resort area in it has a separate article.

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is a city in . With a population of about 62,000, is a small city by Japanese standards, and has urban areas mixed in among the forests, orchards and rice paddies.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 April 2019, the city had an estimated population of 157,480 in 67,783 households, and a population density of 290 persons per km2.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 February 2019, the city had an estimated population of 48,616 in 19,257 households, and a population density of 570 persons per km². The total area of the city is 85.10 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 March 2019, the city had an estimated population of 97,761 in 39744 households, and a population density of 290 persons per km2. Its total area is 331.78 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 March 2019, the city had an estimated population of 55,673 in 23,236 households, and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the city is 266.59 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 March 2019, the city had an estimated population of 48,972 in 20698 households, and a population density of 452 persons per km². The total area of the city is 109.17 square kilometres.

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is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of April 1, 2019, the village had an estimated population of 9,007 in 4267 households, and a population density of 48 persons per km2.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 March 2019, the city had an estimated population of 67,240 in 27,602 households, and a population density of 230 persons per km². The total area of the city is 289.98 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 February 2019, the city had an estimated population of 32,210 in 12,937 households, and a population density of 190 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 165.86 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 February 2019, the city had an estimated population of 20,118 in 7372 households, and a population density of 99 persons per km2.

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is a resort town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2016, the town had an estimated population of 20,323 in 9897 households, and a population density of 130 persons per km2.

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is a town located in in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2019, the town had an estimated population of 12,403 in 5020 households, and a population density of 47 persons per km2.

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or Kiso Mountains or Central Alps are a mountain range mostly located in Nagano. There are several hiking routes in the mountains and most of them are suitable for all hikers and require only a little earlier experience.

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is a town located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 April 2019, the town had an estimated population of 10,999 in 3832 households, and a population density of 580 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 19.12 square kilometres.

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is a town in Nagano. It is the home to several waterfalls, among which Tadachi Waterfalls is the most visited. These waterfalls have been part of Chuo-Alps Quasi National Park since 2020. There is also a camping area close to the mountains.

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Ōkuwa is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 April 2019, the village had an estimated population of 3,693 in 1558 households, and a population density of 16 persons per km2. The total area of the village is 234.47 square kilometres.

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is a village located in Nagano Prefecture, . As of 1 April 2019, the village had an estimated population of 755 in 350 households, and a population density of 13 persons per km2. The total area of the village is 56.32 square kilometres.

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Kamikōchi is a resort village in City, Nagano prefecture. Locates roughly between Matsumoto and , Gifu in the Japanese Alps.

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is a post-town in Nagano. One of the most visited places in the , has been beautifully restored as an Edo Era post-town but in a more authentic manner that other similar restorations like .
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Nagano

Latitude of center
36.1144° or 36° 6′ 52″ north
Longitude of center
138.0319° or 138° 1′ 55″ east
Population
2,050,000
Elevation
1,601 metres (5,253 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 702987351
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1856210
Wiki­data ID
Q127877
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Nagano” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Nagano”
  • Afrikaans: “Nagano Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Nagano-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ناغانو”
  • Arabic: “ناغانو”
  • Armenian: “Նագանո (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Նագանո”
  • Asturian: “Nagano (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Nagano (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Nagano”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Nagano”
  • Azerbaijani: “Naqano prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Nagano”
  • Basque: “Nagano”
  • Belarusian: “Нагана (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Нагана (прэфэктура)”
  • Belarusian: “Нагана”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Нагана”
  • Bengali: “নাগানো প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Нагано”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Nagano”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Nagano”
  • Cebuano: “Nagano-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ناگانۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناگانۆ”
  • Chechen: “Нагано (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Нагано”
  • Chinese: “Nagano-koān”
  • Chinese: “長野県”
  • Chinese: “長野縣”
  • Chinese: “长野县”
  • Croatian: “Nagano”
  • Czech: “prefektura Nagano”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Nagano”
  • Czech: “長野県”
  • Danish: “Nagano-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Nagano”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه ناجانو”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Nagano”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Nagano”
  • Esperanto: “JP-20”
  • Esperanto: “Nagano”
  • Estonian: “Nagano prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Naganon prefektuuri”
  • French: “Nagano-ken”
  • French: “Nagano”
  • French: “préfecture de Nagano”
  • French: “Préfecture de Nagano”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Nagano”
  • Georgian: “ნაგანო”
  • Georgian: “ნაგანოს პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-20”
  • German: “Nagano-ken”
  • German: “Nagano”
  • German: “Präfektur Nagano”
  • Greek: “Νομός Ναγκάνο”
  • Gujarati: “નાગાનો પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nagano-yen”
  • Hebrew: “נאגנו”
  • Hindi: “नागानो प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Nagano prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Nagano”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Nagano”
  • Indonesian: “Nagano”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Nagano”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Nagano”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Nagano”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Nagano”
  • Japanese: “Nagano-ken”
  • Japanese: “ながのけん”
  • Japanese: “長野”
  • Japanese: “長野県”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಗನೊ”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯಾಗೊನೋ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nagano prefekturası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Naganо”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តណាហ្គាណុ”
  • Korean: “나가노 현”
  • Korean: “나가노현”
  • Korean: “신슈”
  • Latin: “Nagano”
  • Latin: “Naganoënsis”
  • Latin: “Naganum”
  • Latvian: “Nagano prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “長野縣”
  • Literary Chinese: “长野县”
  • Lithuanian: “Nagano prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Nagano-ken”
  • Macedonian: “Нагано”
  • Malay: “Nagano”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Nagano”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯥꯒꯥꯅꯣ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “नागानो प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “नागानो”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nagano-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nagano Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nagano-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nagano-kōan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nagano (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nagano”
  • Northern Sami: “Nagano prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nagano prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nagano prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Nagano”
  • Novial: “Nagano Prefekture”
  • Ossetian: “Нагано (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Нагано”
  • Pampanga: “Nagano Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Nagano”
  • Persian: “استان ناگانو”
  • Polish: “Nagano”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Nagano”
  • Portuguese: “Nagano”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Nagano”
  • Russian: “Нагано”
  • Russian: “Префектура Нагано”
  • Scots: “Nagano Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Nagano”
  • Serbian: “Нагано”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Нагано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nagano”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Nagano”
  • Sinhala: “නගනෝ ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “නගානො ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Nagano”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Nagano”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ناقانو اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Nagano Japon”
  • Spanish: “Nagano Japón”
  • Spanish: “Nagano prefecture”
  • Spanish: “Nagano”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Nagano”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura Nagano”
  • Sundanese: “Nagano Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Nagano”
  • Swedish: “Nagano prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Nagano”
  • Tagalog: “Nagano Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Nagano”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Nagano”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Nagano”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Нагано”
  • Tamil: “மகனோ ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Нагано (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Нагано”
  • Telugu: “నాగానో ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดนางาโนะ”
  • Turkish: “Nagano prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Nagano”
  • Ukrainian: “Нагано”
  • Ukrainian: “Наґано”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Нагано”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Наґано”
  • Urdu: “ناگانو پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Nagano”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Nagano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nagano Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nagano”
  • Welsh: “Nagano”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ناگانو”
  • Wu Chinese: “Nagano Prefecture”
  • Wu Chinese: “长野县”
  • Yue Chinese: “長野”
  • Yue Chinese: “長野縣”
  • Yue Chinese: “长野县”

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