Shiga
Shiga Prefecture is an inland prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,398,972 as of 1 February 2025 and has a geographic area of 4,017 km2.
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Photo: Yusuke.ogawa, Public domain.Shiga
- Type: Province with 1,400,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “JP-25”, “Prefecture of Shiga”, “prefektejo Ŝiga”, “prefektujo Ŝiga”, “Prepektura ng Syiga”, “Prepekturang Shiga”, “Prepekturang Syiga”, “Shiga (prefeutura)”, “Shiga (Xapón)”, “Shiga Japon”, “Shiga Japón”, “Shiga Ken”, “Shiga Prefecture”, “Shiga prefektörlüğü”, “Shiga prefektūra”, “Shiga-koān”, “Ŝiga”, “Siga Koān”, “Šiga prefektūra”, “Siga-kōan”, “Šigas prefektūra”, “Tỉnh Shiga”, “Tư Hạ Huyện”, “Префектура Сіга”, “Сіґа”, “محافظة شيغا”, and “湖国”
- Neighbors: Fukui, Gifu, Kyoto, and Mie
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
35.2472° or 35° 14′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
136.1094° or 136° 6′ 34″ east
Population
1,400,000
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shiga” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Shiga”
- Afrikaans: “Shiga Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Shiga-prefektuur”
- Amharic: “ሺጋ”
- Arabic: “شيغا”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura de Shiga”
- Armenian: “Սիգա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Սիգա”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Shiga”
- Azerbaijani: “Şiqa prefekturası”
- Azerbaijani: “Şiqa”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Shiga”
- Bashkir: “Сига”
- Basque: “Shiga”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Сіга”
- Belarusian: “Сіга”
- Bengali: “শিগা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Prefedelezh Shiga”
- Bulgarian: “Шига”
- Burmese: “ရှိဂခရိုင်”
- Burmese: “ရှိဂါ့စီရင်စု”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Shiga”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Shiga”
- Cebuano: “Shiga-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای شیگا”
- Central Kurdish: “شیگا”
- Chechen: “Сига (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Сига”
- Chinese: “滋賀縣”
- Chinese: “滋贺县”
- Croatian: “Shiga”
- Czech: “prefektura Šiga”
- Czech: “Prefektura Šiga”
- Danish: “Shiga-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Shiga”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Ŝiga”
- Estonian: “Shiga prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Shigan prefektuuri”
- French: “préfecture de Shiga”
- French: “Préfecture de Shiga”
- French: “Shiga”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Shiga”
- Georgian: “სიგის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “Präfektur Shiga”
- German: “Shiga”
- Greek: “Σίγκα”
- Gujarati: “શિગા પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shiga-yen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tsṳ̂-fo-yen”
- Hausa: “Shiga”
- Hebrew: “שיגה”
- Hindi: “शिगा प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Siga prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Shiga”
- Iloko: “Shiga”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Shiga”
- Irish: “Maoracht Shiga”
- Italian: “prefettura di Shiga”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Shiga”
- Japanese: “Shiga-ken”
- Japanese: “しが”
- Japanese: “シガ”
- Japanese: “しがけん”
- Japanese: “シガケン”
- Japanese: “滋賀”
- Japanese: “滋賀県”
- Javanese: “Prefektur Shiga”
- Javanese: “Préfèktur Shiga”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಗಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kazakh: “Шига”
- Kirghiz: “Шига”
- Korean: “시가 현”
- Korean: “시가현”
- Latin: “Shigaënsis”
- Latin: “Siga”
- Latvian: “Sigas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “滋賀縣”
- Lithuanian: “Šigos prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Шига”
- Malay: “Wilayah Shiga”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯒꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “शिगा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “शिगा”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “محافظة شيگا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Shiga-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siga-koān”
- Mongolian: “Шига муж”
- Mongolian: “Шига”
- Nepali: “सिगा”
- Northern Frisian: “Shiga (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Shiga”
- Northern Sami: “Shiga prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shiga prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shiga prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Shiga”
- Oromo: “Shiga”
- Ossetian: “Сигæ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਗਾ”
- Persian: “استان شیگا”
- Polish: “Prefektura Shiga”
- Polish: “Shiga”
- Portuguese: “Shiga”
- Pushto: “شيګا”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Shiga”
- Russian: “Сига”
- Scots: “Shiga Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Šiga”
- Serbian: “Префектура Шига”
- Serbian: “Шига”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Shiga”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Šiga”
- Sinhala: “ශිගා ප්රාන්තය”
- Sinhala: “ෂිගා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Šiga”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Šiga”
- Somali: “Shiga”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیقا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Shiga”
- Sundanese: “Préféktur Shiga”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Shiga”
- Swedish: “Shiga prefektur”
- Swedish: “Shiga”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Shiga”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Siga”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Сига”
- Tajik: “Устони Шига”
- Tamil: “ஷிகா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
- Tatar: “Сига (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Сига”
- Telugu: “షిగా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชิงะ”
- Turkish: “Shiga”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Сіґа”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Шіґа”
- Urdu: “شیگا پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Shiga”
- Vietnamese: “Shiga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shiga”
- Welsh: “Shiga”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیگا”
- Wu Chinese: “滋贺县”
- Yue Chinese: “滋賀縣”
- “ma Sika”
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