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Nara

Nara is an ancient capital city in Nara Prefecture, region of . Overshadowed by its more famous neighbor , Nara is omitted from many a time-pressed tourist's itinerary.
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  • Type: City with 365,000 residents
  • Description: city in Nara prefecture, Japan
  • Postal code: 630-8580
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Tōdai-ji and Heijō Palace.

Heritage site
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is a complex that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in the city of Nara, Japan. The construction of the temple was an attempt to imitate Chinese temples from the much-admired Tang dynasty.

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was the imperial residence in the Japanese capital city Heijō-kyō, during most of the Nara period. The palace, which served as the imperial residence and the administrative centre of for most of the Nara period from 710 to 794 AD, was located at the north-central location of the city in accordance with the models used for the design of the capital.

Buddhist temple
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Yakushi-ji is one of the most famous imperial and ancient Buddhist in , and was once one of the Seven Great Temples of Nanto, located in Nara.

Nara

Latitude
34.6845° or 34° 41′ 4″ north
Longitude
135.8048° or 135° 48′ 17″ east
Population
365,000
Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP QNZ
Open location code
8Q6QMRM3+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1922043513
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1855612
Wiki­data ID
Q169134
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nara” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nara, Nara”
  • Afrikaans: “Nara”
  • Arabic: “نارا”
  • Aragonese: “Nara”
  • Armenian: “Նարա”
  • Asturian: “Nara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nara”
  • Balinese: “Nara, Nara”
  • Balinese: “Nara”
  • Bashkir: “Нара (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Нара”
  • Basque: “Nara”
  • Belarusian: “Нара”
  • Bengali: “নারা”
  • Bulgarian: “Нара”
  • Catalan: “Nara”
  • Cebuano: “Nara-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Nara-shi”
  • Chechen: “Нара (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Нара”
  • Chinese: “Nara-chhī”
  • Chinese: “奈良”
  • Chinese: “奈良市”
  • Croatian: “Nara”
  • Czech: “Nara”
  • Danish: “Nara”
  • Dutch: “Nara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نارا”
  • Esperanto: “Nara”
  • Estonian: “Nara”
  • Faroese: “Nara”
  • Finnish: “Nara”
  • French: “Nanto”
  • French: “Nara”
  • Galician: “Nara”
  • Georgian: “ნარა”
  • German: “Nara”
  • Greek: “Νάρα”
  • Gujarati: “નારા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nai-liòng-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “נארה”
  • Hindi: “नारा”
  • Hungarian: “Nara”
  • Ido: “Nara”
  • Indonesian: “Nara, Nara”
  • Indonesian: “Nara”
  • Irish: “Nara”
  • Italian: “Nara”
  • Japanese: “Nara-shi”
  • Japanese: “ならし”
  • Japanese: “南都”
  • Japanese: “奈良”
  • Japanese: “奈良市”
  • Japanese: “寧楽”
  • Japanese: “平城”
  • Japanese: “那羅”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nara”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Нара”
  • Korean: “나라 시”
  • Korean: “나라 현 나라 시”
  • Korean: “나라시”
  • Korean: “나라현 나라시”
  • Korean: “내량시”
  • Korean: “내량현 내량시”
  • Korean: “헤이조코”
  • Latin: “Nara”
  • Latvian: “Nara”
  • Literary Chinese: “奈良市”
  • Lithuanian: “Nara”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nara”
  • Macedonian: “Нара”
  • Madurese: “Nara, Nara”
  • Madurese: “Nara”
  • Malay: “Nara, Nara”
  • Malay: “Nara”
  • Malay: “نارا”
  • Maltese: “Nara”
  • Marathi: “नारा”
  • Mazanderani: “نارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nara-chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Nara, Nara”
  • Minangkabau: “Nara”
  • Mongolian: “Нара”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nara”
  • Norwegian: “Nara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nara”
  • Persian: “نارا”
  • Polish: “Nara”
  • Portuguese: “Nara”
  • Romanian: “Nara”
  • Russian: “Нара Нара”
  • Russian: “Нара, Нара”
  • Russian: “Нара”
  • Sardinian: “Nara”
  • Scots: “Nara”
  • Serbian: “Nara”
  • Serbian: “Нара”
  • Serbian: “奈良市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nara, Nara”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nara”
  • Silesian: “Nara (mjasto we Japůńiji)”
  • Silesian: “Nara”
  • Sindhi: “نارا (شهر)”
  • Sindhi: “نارا”
  • Sinhala: “නරා”
  • Sinhala: “නාරා, නාරා”
  • Slovak: “Nara”
  • Slovenian: “Nara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نارا”
  • Spanish: “Nara Nara”
  • Spanish: “Nara”
  • Swahili: “Nara, Nara”
  • Swahili: “Nara”
  • Swedish: “Nara, Nara”
  • Swedish: “Nara”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Nara”
  • Tagalog: “Nara-shi”
  • Tagalog: “Nara”
  • Tajik: “Nara”
  • Tajik: “Нара”
  • Tamil: “நாரா”
  • Tatar: “Нара”
  • Telugu: “నారా”
  • Thai: “นาระ”
  • Turkish: “Nara”
  • Ukrainian: “Нара”
  • Urdu: “نارا، نارا”
  • Uzbek: “Nara”
  • Venetian: “Nara”
  • Vietnamese: “Di tích Nara cổ”
  • Vietnamese: “Nại Lương thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Nara”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Nại Lương”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Nara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nara”
  • Welsh: “Nara”
  • Wu Chinese: “奈良市”
  • Yue Chinese: “奈良市”
  • “ma tomo Nala”

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