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Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the of of . Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2071066 and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at 12,584.18 km2.
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is a city located in the northern part of Prefecture. It is the capital and the most populous city of Prefecture, and one of the cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, located in the of .

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is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, . It is the second largest city in the prefecture, after the capital city of Niigata. As of 4 August 2021, the city had an estimated population of 264,611 in 109,283 households and a population density of 300 inhabitants per square kilometre.

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Jōetsu is a city in Niigata, . The city is best known for its port, Naoetsu, which has given its name to the main train station as well. And old city area Takada.

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Tōkamachi is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 1 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 28,728 in 19,823 households, and a population density of 86.3 persons per km².

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is a city in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 31 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 96,236 in 37,017 households, and a population density of 179 persons per km². The total area of the city was 533.10 square kilometres.

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Sanjō is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 1 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 95,706 in 36,201 households, and a population density of 222 persons per km². The total area of the city was 431.97 square kilometres.

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is a city located in the center of Niigata prefecture. It has a long coast along the Japan Sea.

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is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 1 September 2024, the city had an estimated population of 38,224 living in 17,028 households, and a population density of 51 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 746.24 square kilometres.

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Myōkō is a city in Niigata prefecture, in the central region of the main island .

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Minamiuonuma is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 55,354 with 20,047 households, and a population density of 96.1 persons per km2. Its total area was 584.55 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 58,300 in 22,594 households, and a population density of 50 persons per km². The total area of the city was 1,174.26 square kilometres.

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is an island off the coast of Niigata in the region of . The whole island forms a municipality, Sado City. The historical gold mines of the island became a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.

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is a town in Niigata prefecture and the most convenient ski resort in Japan. Often called Echigo-Yuzawa to avoid confusion.

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is a town located in Niigata Prefecture, . As of 1 July 2019, the town had an estimated population of 4,190, and a population density of 94.4 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 44.38 square kilometres.

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is an island in northern Niigata with 365 inhabitants, the island has two main settlements: Uchiura on the east coast and Kamaya on the west coast.
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Niigata

Latitude of center
37.6452° or 37° 38′ 43″ north
Longitude of center
138.7669° or 138° 46′ 1″ east
Population
2,130,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Inception
December 31st, 1871
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752398446
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1855429
Wiki­data ID
Q132705
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Niigata” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Niigata”
  • Afrikaans: “Niigata Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Niigata-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “محافظة نيئيغاتا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة نييغاتا”
  • Arabic: “نييغاتا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Niigata”
  • Armenian: “Նիիգաթա”
  • Armenian: “Նիիգատա”
  • Asturian: “Niigata (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Niigata (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Niigata”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Niigata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Niiqata prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Niigata”
  • Bashkir: “Ниигата (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Ниигата”
  • Basque: “Niigata”
  • Belarusian: “Ніігата (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Ніігата”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Ніігата”
  • Bengali: “নিইগাতা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ниигата”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Niigata”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Niigata”
  • Cebuano: “Niigata-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای نیگاتا”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیگاتا”
  • Chechen: “Ниигата (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Ниигата”
  • Chinese: “Niigata-koān”
  • Chinese: “新泻县”
  • Chinese: “新潟”
  • Chinese: “新潟县”
  • Chinese: “新潟縣”
  • Croatian: “Niigata”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Niigata”
  • Czech: “prefektura Niigata”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Niigata”
  • Danish: “Niigata-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Niigata”
  • Dutch: “Prefectuur Niigata”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Nigato”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Nigato”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Niigata”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Niigata”
  • Esperanto: “JP-15”
  • Esperanto: “Nigato”
  • Esperanto: “Niigata”
  • Estonian: “Niigata prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Niigatan prefektuuri”
  • French: “Niigata”
  • French: “préfecture de Niigata”
  • French: “Préfecture de Niigata”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Niigata”
  • Georgian: “ნიიგატის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-15”
  • German: “Niigata”
  • German: “Präfektur Niigata”
  • Greek: “Νιιγκάτα”
  • Gujarati: “નીગાટા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Niigata-yen”
  • Hebrew: “ניאיגטה”
  • Hindi: “नीगाता प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Niigata prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Niigata”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Niigata”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Niigata”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Niigata”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Niigata”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Niigata”
  • Japanese: “Niigata-ken”
  • Japanese: “にいがたけん”
  • Japanese: “新潟”
  • Japanese: “新潟県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Niigata”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Niigata”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಗಾಟಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kannada: “ನೀಗತಾ”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តនីហ្គាតាក់”
  • Khmer: “នីហ្កាតា(ខេត្ត)”
  • Korean: “니가따현”
  • Korean: “니가타 현”
  • Korean: “니가타현”
  • Korean: “니이가다 현”
  • Korean: “니이가타 현”
  • Korean: “니카타 현”
  • Latin: “Niigata”
  • Latin: “Niigataënsis”
  • Latvian: “Niigatas prefektūra”
  • Latvian: “Ņiigatas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “新潟縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Niigata prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Niigatos prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Nijigatos prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Ниигата”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Niigata”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯤꯏꯒꯥꯇꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “निगाटा”
  • Marathi: “निगाता प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “निगाता”
  • Marathi: “नीगाटा”
  • Marathi: “नीगाता”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Niigata-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nîgata Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nigata-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nîgata-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nîgata-kōan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niigata Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Niigata-koān”
  • Nepali: “निगाता”
  • Northern Frisian: “Niigata (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Niigata”
  • Northern Sami: “Niigata prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Niigata prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niigata prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Niigata”
  • Novial: “Niigata Prefekture”
  • Ossetian: “Ниигатæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Ниигатæ”
  • Persian: “استان نیگاتا”
  • Persian: “استان نییگاتا”
  • Polish: “Niigata”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Niigata”
  • Portuguese: “Niigata”
  • Romanian: “Niigata”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Niigata”
  • Russian: “Ниигата”
  • Scots: “Niigata Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Niigata”
  • Serbian: “Ниигата”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Нигата”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Ниигата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Niigata”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Niigata”
  • Sinhala: “නිගටා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Niigata”
  • Slovenian: “JP-15”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Nigata”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Niigata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیقاتا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Niigata Japon”
  • Spanish: “Niigata Japón”
  • Spanish: “Niigata”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Niigata”
  • Sundanese: “Niigata Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Niigata”
  • Swedish: “Niigata prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Niigata”
  • Tagalog: “Niigata Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Niigata”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Niigata”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Niigata”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ниигата”
  • Tamil: “நீகட்ட ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tamil: “நீகாட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Ниигата (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Ниигата”
  • Telugu: “నీగాటా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดนีงาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Niigata prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Niigata”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніїґата”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ніігата”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ніїгата”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ніїґата”
  • Urdu: “نیگاتا پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Niigata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niigata Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Niigata”
  • Welsh: “Niigata”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع نیایگاٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “新潟县”
  • Yue Chinese: “新潟”
  • Yue Chinese: “新潟縣”
  • “Niigata-ken”
  • “にいがたけん”
  • “新潟県”

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