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Niigata

Niigata is a city located in the northern part of . It is the capital and the most populous city of , and one of the cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, located in the of .
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  • Type: City with 812,000 residents
  • Description: city in Niigata prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Niahi-niigata” and “Nigita”
  • Postal code: 951-8550
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Niigata Station and Hakusan.

Railway station
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is a major railway station in Hanazono 1-chome, , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company. The station is in the center of Niigata City, the largest city on the coast in .

Railway station
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Station is a railway station on the Echigo Line in , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Railway station
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Station is a railway station on the Echigo Line in Shimotokorojima 1-chome, , Japan. It is operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chūō-ku and Higashi-ku.

Suburb
Photo: Breakover, Public domain.
is one of the eight wards of Niigata City, , in the Hokuriku region of . It comprises much of the city centre. As of 1 September 2018, the ward had an estimated population of 183,231 in 87,162 households and a population density of 4,900 persons per km2.

Suburb
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is one of the eight wards of Niigata City, , in the Hokuriku region of . As of 1 September 2016, the ward had an estimated population of 136,224 in 60,830 households and a population density of 3500 persons per km2.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Niigata

Latitude
37.9164° or 37° 54′ 59″ north
Longitude
139.0365° or 139° 2′ 11″ east
Population
812,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 1889
IATA airport code
KIJ
United Nations Location Code
JP KIJ
Open location code
8Q9XW28P+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752398625
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1855431
Wiki­data ID
Q179691
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Niigata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيغاتا”
  • Arabic: “نييغاتا”
  • 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: “Niigata-chhī”
  • Chinese: “新泻市”
  • Chinese: “新潟市”
  • Chinese: “新瀉市”
  • Croatian: “Niigata”
  • Czech: “Niigata”
  • Danish: “Niigata”
  • Dutch: “Niigata”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نييجاتا”
  • Esperanto: “Nigata”
  • Esperanto: “Niigata”
  • Estonian: “Niigata”
  • Finnish: “Niigata”
  • French: “Niigata-shi”
  • French: “Niigata”
  • Galician: “Niigata”
  • German: “Nigata”
  • German: “Nīgata”
  • German: “Niigata”
  • Greek: “Νιιγκάτα”
  • Gujarati: “નીગાટા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Niigata-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “ניאיגאטה”
  • Hebrew: “ניאיגטה”
  • Hebrew: “ניגאטה”
  • Hebrew: “נייגאטה”
  • 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: “新潟区”
  • Japanese: “新潟市”
  • Japanese: “柳都”
  • Japanese: “水の都”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Niigata”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಗಾಟಾ”
  • Kikuyu: “Niigata”
  • Kirghiz: “Ниигата”
  • Korean: “니가타 시”
  • Korean: “니가타시”
  • Korean: “니이가다 시”
  • Korean: “니이가다”
  • Korean: “니이가타 시”
  • Latvian: “Niigata”
  • Latvian: “Ņiigata”
  • Literary Chinese: “新潟市”
  • Lithuanian: “Niigata”
  • Lithuanian: “Nijigata”
  • Lule Sami: “Niigata”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Niigata”
  • Malay: “Niigata, Niigata”
  • Malay: “Niigata”
  • Marathi: “निगाटा,”
  • Marathi: “निगाटा”
  • Marathi: “निगाता”
  • Marathi: “निग्गाटा”
  • Marathi: “नीगाता”
  • Mazanderani: “نیگاتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nîgata-chhī”
  • 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 Ниигата”
  • Russian: “Ниигата, Ниигата”
  • 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 Niigata”
  • Spanish: “Niigata”
  • Sundanese: “Niigata, Niigata”
  • Sundanese: “Niigata”
  • Swahili: “Niigata, Niigata”
  • Swahili: “Niigata”
  • Swedish: “Niigata”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Niigata”
  • Tagalog: “Niigata”
  • Tajik: “Niigata”
  • Tajik: “Ниигата”
  • Tamil: “நீகட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Ниигата”
  • Telugu: “నీగాత”
  • Thai: “นีงาตะ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Niigata”
  • Tumbuka: “Niigata”
  • Turkish: “Niigata”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніігата”
  • Ukrainian: “Нііґата”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніїгата”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніїґата”
  • Ume Sami: “Niigata”
  • Urdu: “نیگاتا”
  • Uzbek: “Niigata”
  • Venetian: “Niigata”
  • Vietnamese: “Niigata”
  • Vietnamese: “Tân Tích Thị”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niigata”
  • Wu Chinese: “新潟市”
  • Yakut: “Ниигата”
  • Yue Chinese: “新潟市”

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