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Okinawa
Okinawa Island

Naha

Naha is the capital of the in and is the main city on . It has a population of around 317,000, which is about a quarter of the total population of the island.
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  • Type: City with 318,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Okinawa prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Nafa”, “Naha, Okinawa”, “Nahashi”, “Napa”, and “Nawa”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum (Okimyu) and Tsushimamaru Memorial museum.

Museum
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The Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, or Okimu for short, is a museum in the most southern prefecture of . The museum complex in the Omoro-machi area of Naha, the capital city of .

Museum
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Tsushima Maru was a Japanese passenger/cargo ship that was sunk by the submarine during World War II, while carrying hundreds of schoolchildren from to .

Garden
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Fukushūen is a traditional Chinese garden in the Kume area of Naha, . The garden was constructed in 1992, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the sister city relationship between Naha and Fuzhou in China.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haebaru and Kumemura.

Town
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is a town located in , , . As of 2025, the town has an estimated population of 41,585 and a density of 3,865 persons per km2.

Quarter
was an Okinawan community of scholars, bureaucrats, and diplomats in the port city of Naha near the royal capital of , which was a center of culture and learning during the time of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Naha

Latitude
26.2122° or 26° 12′ 44″ north
Longitude
127.6791° or 127° 40′ 45″ east
Population
318,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP NAH
Open location code
7QR96M6H+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 567940176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1856035
Wiki­data ID
Q181966
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Naha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناها، أوكيناوا”
  • Arabic: “ناها”
  • Aragonese: “Naha”
  • Armenian: “Նահա”
  • Asturian: “Naha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Naha”
  • Balinese: “Naha”
  • Basque: “Naha”
  • Belarusian: “Наха”
  • Bengali: “নাহা”
  • Bulgarian: “Наха”
  • Catalan: “Naha”
  • Cebuano: “Naha Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Naha-shi (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)”
  • Central Okinawan: “ナーファ”
  • Central Okinawan: “ナファ”
  • Central Okinawan: “那覇区”
  • Central Okinawan: “那覇市”
  • Central Okinawan: “那霸市”
  • Chechen: “Наха”
  • Chinese: “Naha-chhī”
  • Chinese: “那霸”
  • Chinese: “那霸市”
  • Cornish: “Naha”
  • Croatian: “Naha”
  • Czech: “Naha”
  • Danish: “Naha”
  • Dutch: “Naha”
  • Erzya: “Наха”
  • Esperanto: “Naha”
  • Estonian: “Naha”
  • Finnish: “Naha”
  • French: “Naha”
  • Galician: “Naha”
  • Georgian: “ნაჰა”
  • German: “Naha-shi”
  • German: “Naha”
  • Greek: “Νάχα”
  • Gujarati: “નાહા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ná-pa-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Naha-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “נהה”
  • Hindi: “नाहा”
  • Hungarian: “Naha”
  • Indonesian: “Naha, Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Naha”
  • Irish: “Naha”
  • Italian: “Naha”
  • Japanese: “Naha-shi”
  • Japanese: “ナーファ”
  • Japanese: “なは”
  • Japanese: “ナハ”
  • Japanese: “なはし”
  • Japanese: “ナハシ”
  • Japanese: “ナファ”
  • Japanese: “那覇”
  • Japanese: “那覇区”
  • Japanese: “那覇市”
  • Japanese: “那霸市”
  • Kannada: “ನಹಾ”
  • Korean: “나하 시”
  • Korean: “나하”
  • Korean: “나하시”
  • Latin: “Naha”
  • Latvian: “Naha”
  • Literary Chinese: “那霸市”
  • Lithuanian: “Naha”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Naha”
  • Malagasy: “Naha”
  • Malay: “Naha, Okinawa”
  • Malay: “Naha”
  • Marathi: “नाहा”
  • Mazanderani: “ناها، اوکیناوا”
  • Mazanderani: “ناها”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Naha-chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Naha-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Naha”
  • Norwegian: “Naha”
  • Ossetian: “Нахæ”
  • Persian: “ناها، اوکیناوا”
  • Persian: “ناها”
  • Polish: “Naha”
  • Portuguese: “Naha”
  • Quechua: “Naha”
  • Romanian: “Naha”
  • Russian: “Наха”
  • Sardinian: “Naha”
  • Scots: “Naha, Okinawa”
  • Scots: “Naha”
  • Serbian: “Naha”
  • Serbian: “Наха”
  • Serbian: “那覇市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Naha”
  • Sinhala: “නහා”
  • Slovak: “Naha”
  • Slovenian: “Naha, Okinava”
  • Slovenian: “Naha”
  • Spanish: “Naha (Okinawa)”
  • Spanish: “Naha”
  • Sundanese: “Naha”
  • Swahili: “Naha, Okinawa”
  • Swahili: “Naha”
  • Swedish: “Naha”
  • Tagalog: “Naha”
  • Tajik: “Naha”
  • Tajik: “Наҳа”
  • Tamil: “நஹா”
  • Tatar: “Наха”
  • Tatar: “Наһа”
  • Telugu: “నాహా”
  • Thai: “นาฮะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Naha”
  • Turkish: “Naha”
  • Ukrainian: “Наха”
  • Urdu: “ناہا، اوکیناوا”
  • Urdu: “ناہا”
  • Uzbek: “Naha shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Naha”
  • Venetian: “Naha”
  • Vietnamese: “Naha”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Naha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Naha, Okinava”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Naha, Okinawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Naha”
  • Wu Chinese: “那霸市”
  • Yue Chinese: “那霸”

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