Niigata
Niigata is a city located in the northern part of Niigata Prefecture. It is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, and one of the cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, located in the Chūbu region of Japan.
- Type: City with 812,000 residents
- Description: city in Niigata prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Niahi-niigata”, “Nīgata”, “Nîgata-chhī”, “Nigita”, “Niigata Niigata”, “Tân Tích Thị”, “Ниигата Ниигата”, “Ниигата, Ниигата”, “Нііґата”, “Ніїгата”, “ניאיגאטה”, “ניגאטה”, “נייגאטה”, “نييغاتا”, “निगाटा”, “निग्गाटा”, “니이가다 시”, “니이가타 시”, “新泻市”, “新潟区”, and “新瀉市”
- Postal code: 951-8550
- Neighbors: Nagaoka, Sanjo, and Shibata
Places of Interest
Highlights: Niigata Station and Kamitokoro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chūō-ku and Higashi-ku.
Niigata
- Categories: city designated by government ordinance, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Niigata, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.9164° or 37° 54′ 59″ north
Longitude
139.0365° or 139° 2′ 11″ east
Population
812,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Established
April 1st, 1889
IATA airport code
KIJ
UN/LOCODE
JP KIJ
Open location code
8Q9XW28P+HJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Niigata” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيغاتا”
- Aragonese: “Niigata”
- Armenian: “Նիգատա”
- Armenian: “Նիիգատա”
- Asturian: “Niigata”
- Azerbaijani: “Niiqata”
- Balinese: “Kota Niigata”
- Bashkir: “Ниигата (ҡала)”
- Bashkir: “Ниигата”
- Basque: “Niigata”
- Belarusian: “Ніігата”
- Bengali: “নিইগাতা”
- Breton: “Niigata”
- Bulgarian: “Ниигата”
- Catalan: “Niigata”
- Cebuano: “Niigata Shi”
- Chechen: “Ниигата (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Ниигата”
- Chinese: “新潟市”
- Croatian: “Niigata”
- Czech: “Niigata”
- Danish: “Niigata”
- Dutch: “Niigata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نييجاتا”
- Esperanto: “Nigata”
- Esperanto: “Niigata”
- Estonian: “Niigata”
- Finnish: “Niigata”
- French: “Niigata”
- Galician: “Niigata”
- German: “Niigata”
- Greek: “Νιιγκάτα”
- Gujarati: “નીગાટા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Niigata-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “ניאיגטה”
- Hindi: “नीगाता”
- Hungarian: “Niigata”
- Ido: “Niigata”
- Inari Sami: “Niigata”
- Indonesian: “Niigata”
- Irish: “Niigata”
- Italian: “Niigata”
- Japanese: “Niigata-shi”
- Japanese: “にいがた”
- Japanese: “ニイガタ”
- Japanese: “にいがたし”
- Japanese: “ニイガタシ”
- Japanese: “新潟”
- Japanese: “新潟市”
- Kalo Finnish Romani: “Niigata”
- Kannada: “ನಿಗಾಟಾ”
- Kikuyu: “Niigata”
- Kirghiz: “Ниигата”
- Korean: “니가타 시”
- Korean: “니가타시”
- Korean: “니이가다”
- Latvian: “Ņiigata”
- Literary Chinese: “新潟市”
- Lithuanian: “Niigata”
- Lithuanian: “Nijigata”
- Lule Sami: “Niigata”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Niigata”
- Malay: “Niigata, Niigata”
- Malay: “Niigata”
- Maltese: “Niigata”
- Marathi: “निगाता”
- Marathi: “नीगाता”
- Mazanderani: “نیگاتا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Niigata-chhī”
- Moksha: “Ниигата (ошсь)”
- Moksha: “Ниигата”
- Mongolian: “Нийгата”
- Northern Sami: “Niigata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Niigata”
- Norwegian: “Niigata”
- Ossetian: “Ниигатæ (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Ниигатæ”
- Persian: “نیگاتا”
- Piemontese: “Niigata”
- Pite Sami: “Niigata”
- Polish: “Niigata”
- Portuguese: “Niigata”
- Romanian: “Niigata”
- Russian: “Ниигата”
- Sardinian: “Niigata”
- Scots: “Niigata”
- Serbian: “Niigata”
- Serbian: “Нигата”
- Serbian: “Ниигата”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Niigata”
- Silesian: “Niigata”
- Sinhala: “නිගටා”
- Skolt Sami: “Niigata”
- Slovak: “Niigata”
- Slovenian: “Nigata”
- South Azerbaijani: “نیقاتا”
- Southern Sami: “Niigata”
- Spanish: “Niigata”
- Sundanese: “Niigata, Niigata”
- Sundanese: “Niigata”
- Swahili: “Niigata, Niigata”
- Swahili: “Niigata”
- Swedish: “Niigata”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Niigata”
- Tajik: “Niigata”
- Tajik: “Ниигата”
- Tamil: “நீகட்டா”
- Tatar: “Ниигата”
- Telugu: “నీగాత”
- Thai: “นีงาตะ”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Niigata”
- Tumbuka: “Niigata”
- Turkish: “Niigata”
- Ukrainian: “Ніїґата”
- Ume Sami: “Niigata”
- Urdu: “نیگاتا”
- Uzbek: “Niigata”
- Venetian: “Niigata”
- Vietnamese: “Niigata”
- Waray (Philippines): “Niigata”
- Wu Chinese: “新潟市”
- Yakut: “Ниигата”
- Yue Chinese: “新潟市”
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