Obanazawa

Obanazawa is a city in . Obanazawa's main claim to fame is that it has one of the highest snowfalls in the entire world, with over two meters falling in an average winter, and they've even developed a special sharply peaked "flower hat" to stop snow accumulating on your head.
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  • City with 15,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 93 metres (305 feet)
  • Description: city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ōishida Station and Bashō-Seifū Historical Museum.
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is a junction railway station in the…
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ōishida.
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is a town located in , Japan.

Obanazawa

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Latitude
38.6007° or 38° 36′ 2″ north
Longitude
140.4061° or 140° 24′ 22″ east
Open location code
8RC2JC24+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206828
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2111559
Wiki­data ID
Q846342

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Obanazawa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوبانازاوا، ياماغاتا”
  • Arabic: “أوبانازاوا”
  • Asturian: “Obanazawa”
  • Bengali: “অবানাযাওয়া”
  • Cebuano: “Obanazawa”
  • Chechen: “Обанадзава”
  • Chinese: “尾花泽市”
  • Chinese: “尾花澤市”
  • Czech: “Obanazawa”
  • Danish: “Obanazawa”
  • Dutch: “Obanazawa”
  • Finnish: “Obanazawa”
  • French: “Obanazawa”
  • Galician: “Obanazawa”
  • German: “Obanazawa”
  • Greek: “Ομπαναζάβα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓબનાઝાવા”
  • Hindi: “ओबानज़वा”
  • Hungarian: “Obanazava”
  • Indonesian: “Obanazawa, Yamagata”
  • Indonesian: “Obanazawa”
  • Irish: “Obanazawa”
  • Italian: “Obanazawa”
  • Japanese: “Obanazawa-shi”
  • Japanese: “おばなざわし”
  • Japanese: “尾花沢”
  • Japanese: “尾花沢市”
  • Japanese: “尾花沢村”
  • Japanese: “尾花沢町”
  • Kannada: “ಓಬನಾಝಾವ”
  • Korean: “오바나자와 시”
  • Korean: “오바나자와시”
  • Latvian: “Obanazava”
  • Literary Chinese: “尾花澤市”
  • Lithuanian: “Obanazava”
  • Malagasy: “Obanazawa”
  • Malay: “Obanazawa”
  • Marathi: “ओबानाझावा”
  • Mazanderani: “اوبانازاوا، یاماگاتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Obanazawa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Obanazawa”
  • Persian: “اوبانازاوا، یاماگاتا”
  • Persian: “اوبانازاوا”
  • Polish: “Obanazawa”
  • Portuguese: “Obanazawa”
  • Romanian: “Obanazawa”
  • Russian: “Обанадзава”
  • Sinhala: “ඔබන්සවා”
  • Slovak: “Obanazawa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوبانازاوا، یاماقاتا”
  • Spanish: “Obanazawa”
  • Swedish: “Obanazawa”
  • Tagalog: “Obanasawa”
  • Tagalog: “Obanazawa”
  • Tajik: “Obanazava”
  • Tajik: “Обаназава”
  • Tamil: “ஓபனாசவா”
  • Tatar: “Обанадзава”
  • Telugu: “ఒబనజ్వ”
  • Thai: “โอบานาซาวะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Obanazawa”
  • Turkish: “Obanazawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Обанадзава”
  • Urdu: “اوبانازاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Obanazava”
  • Vietnamese: “Obanazawa, Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Obanazawa, Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Obanazawa”
  • Yue Chinese: “尾花澤”

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