Saga
Saga is the eponymous capital of Saga prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Most travelers seem to pass by on their way to Nagasaki, but the city does have its share of worthwhile sites if you take the time to stop by and explore.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Saga and Saga Castle.
Saga Prefectural Museum
Museum
Photo: Sanjo, Public domain.Saga
- Categories: city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Saga, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.2639° or 33° 15′ 50″ north
Longitude
130.3008° or 130° 18′ 3″ east
Population
233,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
HSG
UN/LOCODE
JP QSG
Open location code
8Q5G7872+H8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saga (stad)”
- Afrikaans: “Saga”
- Arabic: “ساغا، ساغا”
- Arabic: “ساغا”
- Aragonese: “Saga”
- Armenian: “Սագա”
- Asturian: “Saga”
- Azerbaijani: “Saqa”
- Balinese: “Saga, Saga”
- Basque: “Saga”
- Belarusian: “Сага”
- Bengali: “সাগা”
- Bulgarian: “Сага”
- Catalan: “Saga”
- Cebuano: “Saga Shi”
- Chechen: “Сага (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Сага”
- Chinese: “佐賀”
- Chinese: “佐賀市”
- Chinese: “佐贺市”
- Czech: “Saga”
- Danish: “Saga”
- Dutch: “Saga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساجا”
- Esperanto: “Saga”
- Estonian: “Saga”
- Finnish: “Saga”
- French: “Saga”
- Galician: “Saga, Xapón”
- Galician: “Saga”
- German: “Saga”
- Greek: “Σάγκα”
- Gujarati: “સાગા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Saga-sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tsó-fo-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “סאגה, יפן”
- Hebrew: “סאגה”
- Hindi: “सागा”
- Hungarian: “Szaga”
- Indonesian: “Saga, Saga”
- Indonesian: “Saga”
- Irish: “Saga”
- Italian: “Saga”
- Japanese: “Saga-shi”
- Japanese: “さが”
- Japanese: “サガ”
- Japanese: “さがし”
- Japanese: “サガシ”
- Japanese: “佐賀”
- Japanese: “佐賀市”
- Kannada: “ಸಾಗಾ”
- Korean: “사가 시”
- Korean: “사가시”
- Latvian: “Saga”
- Literary Chinese: “佐賀市”
- Lithuanian: “Saga”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Saga”
- Malay: “Saga”
- Marathi: “सागा”
- Mazanderani: “ساگا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saga-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saga”
- Norwegian: “Saga”
- Persian: “ساگا”
- Polish: “Saga”
- Portuguese: “Saga”
- Romanian: “Saga, Saga”
- Romanian: “Saga”
- Russian: “Сага Япония”
- Russian: “Сага”
- Sardinian: “Saga”
- Serbian: “Saga”
- Serbian: “Сага”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saga, Saga”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saga”
- Sinhala: “සගා”
- Slovenian: “Saga”
- Spanish: “Saga”
- Swahili: “Saga, Saga”
- Swahili: “Saga”
- Swedish: “Saga”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Saga”
- Tajik: “Saga”
- Tajik: “Сага”
- Tamil: “சாகா”
- Tatar: “Сага”
- Telugu: “సాగ”
- Thai: “ซะงะ”
- Thai: “ซางะ”
- Turkish: “Saga”
- Ukrainian: “Саґа”
- Urdu: “سگا، سگا”
- Uzbek: “Saga shahri”
- Venetian: “Saga”
- Vietnamese: “Saga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saga”
- Wu Chinese: “佐贺市”
- Yue Chinese: “佐賀市”
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