Nara
Nara is an ancient capital city in Nara Prefecture, Kansai region of Japan. Overshadowed by its more famous neighbor Kyoto, Nara is omitted from many a time-pressed tourist's itinerary.
- Type: City with 365,000 residents
- Description: city in Nara prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Di tích Nara cổ”, “Nại Lương thị”, “Nanto”, “Nara Nara”, “Thành phố Nại Lương”, “Нара Нара”, “Нара, Нара”, “나라 현 나라 시”, “나라현 나라시”, “내량시”, “내량현 내량시”, “헤이조코”, “南都”, “寧楽”, “平城”, and “那羅”
- Postal code: 630-8580
- Neighbors: Iga, Ikoma, Sakurai, and Uda
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tōdai-ji and Heijō Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ganriincho.
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)
UN/LOCODE
JP QNZ
Open location code
8Q6QMRM3+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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: “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: “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: “奈良”
- Japanese: “奈良市”
- Kalaallisut: “Nara”
- Kannada: “ನಾರಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Нара”
- Korean: “나라 시”
- Korean: “나라시”
- 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”
- Sardinian: “Nara”
- Scots: “Nara”
- Serbian: “Nara”
- Serbian: “Нара”
- 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”
- Swahili: “Nara, Nara”
- Swahili: “Nara”
- Swedish: “Nara, Nara”
- Swedish: “Nara”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Nara”
- Tagalog: “Nara-shi”
- Tajik: “Nara”
- Tajik: “Нара”
- Tamil: “நாரா”
- Tatar: “Нара”
- Telugu: “నారా”
- Thai: “นาระ”
- Tumbuka: “Nara”
- Turkish: “Nara”
- Ukrainian: “Нара”
- Urdu: “نارا، نارا”
- Uzbek: “Nara”
- Venetian: “Nara”
- Vietnamese: “Nara”
- 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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