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Shiga

Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan in the 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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Ōtsu is the capital of Shiga prefecture. Enryaku-ji, a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei overlooking , is the headquarters of the Tendai sect and one of the most significant monasteries in Japanese history.

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is the largest freshwater in Japan. It is located entirely within Shiga Prefecture, northeast of the former capital city of . is an ancient lake, over 4 million years old.

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is a city of 113,000 people at the eastern edge of in Shiga prefecture, central .

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is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The city lies on , Japan's largest freshwater lake. As of 31 January 2024, the city had an estimated population of 139,913 in 63,942 households and a population density of 2100 persons per km2.

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is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, . As of 1 November 2021, the city had an estimated population of 116,043 in 46858 households and a population density of 120 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 680.79 square kilometres.

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Ōmihachiman is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, . As of 31 August 2021, the city had an estimated population of 82,233 in 34747 households and a population density of 570 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 76.97 square kilometres.

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is a mountain that lies to the northeast of in the Sakamoto district of city. It is famed for the extensive temple complex near the summit.

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is a city in Shiga Prefecture, . As of 1 September 2021, the city had an estimated population of 38,259 in 14761 households and a population density of 150 persons per km². The total area of the city is 250.39 square kilometres.

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Kōka is a city in southern Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 September 2021, the city had an estimated population of 89,619 in 36708 households and a population density of 190 persons per km². The total area of the city is 481.62 square kilometres.

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Ryūō is a town located in , Shiga Prefecture, . As of 31 August 2021, the town had an estimated population of 11,786 in 4499 households and a population density of 260 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 44.52 square kilometres.

Shiga

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
node 541403056
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1852553
Wiki­data ID
Q131358
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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”
  • Arabic: “شيغا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة شيغا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Shiga”
  • Armenian: “Սիգա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Սիգա”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Shiga”
  • Asturian: “Shiga (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Shiga (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “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”
  • Breton: “Shiga”
  • Bulgarian: “Шига”
  • 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: “Siga-koān”
  • Chinese: “滋賀”
  • Chinese: “滋賀縣”
  • Chinese: “滋贺县”
  • Croatian: “Shiga”
  • Czech: “prefektura Šiga”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Šiga”
  • Danish: “Shiga-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Shiga”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Ŝiga”
  • Esperanto: “prefektejo Ŝiga”
  • Esperanto: “prefektujo Ŝiga”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝiga”
  • Estonian: “Shiga prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Shiga”
  • Finnish: “Shigan prefektuuri”
  • French: “préfecture de Shiga”
  • French: “Préfecture de Shiga”
  • French: “Shiga”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Shiga”
  • Georgian: “სიგის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-25”
  • German: “Präfektur Shiga”
  • German: “Shiga”
  • Greek: “Σίγκα”
  • Gujarati: “શિગા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Shiga-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tsṳ̂-fo-yen”
  • 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”
  • Italian: “Shiga”
  • Japanese: “Shiga-ken”
  • Japanese: “しが”
  • Japanese: “シガ”
  • Japanese: “しがけん”
  • Japanese: “シガケン”
  • Japanese: “湖国”
  • Japanese: “滋賀”
  • Japanese: “滋賀県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Shiga”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Shiga”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿಗಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Korean: “시가 현”
  • Korean: “시가현”
  • Latin: “Shigaënsis”
  • Latin: “Siga”
  • Latvian: “Sigas prefektūra”
  • Latvian: “Šigas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “滋賀縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Shiga prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiga prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiga”
  • Lithuanian: “Šigos prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Шига”
  • Malay: “Shiga”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Shiga”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯒꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “शिगा प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “शिगा”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “محافظة شيگا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Shiga-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shiga-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Siga Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Siga-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Siga-kōan”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Сигæ”
  • Persian: “استان شیگا”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Shiga”
  • Polish: “Shiga”
  • Portuguese: “Shiga”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Shiga”
  • Romanian: “Shiga”
  • Russian: “Сига”
  • Russian: “Шига”
  • Scots: “Shiga Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Šiga”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Шига”
  • Serbian: “Шига”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Shiga”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Šiga”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shiga”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šiga”
  • Sinhala: “ශිගා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “ෂිගා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Šiga”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Šiga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیقا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Shiga”
  • Spanish: “Shiga Japon”
  • Spanish: “Shiga Japón”
  • Spanish: “Shiga”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Shiga”
  • Sundanese: “Shiga Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Shiga”
  • Swedish: “Shiga prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Shiga”
  • Tagalog: “Prefecture of Shiga”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Shiga”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Syiga”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Shiga”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Syiga”
  • Tagalog: “Shiga Prefecture”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Siga”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Сига”
  • Tajik: “Устони Шига”
  • Tamil: “ஷிகா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tatar: “Сига (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Сига”
  • Telugu: “షిగా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดชิงะ”
  • Turkish: “Shiga prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Shiga”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Сіга”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Сіґа”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Шіґа”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіґа”
  • Ukrainian: “Шіґа”
  • Urdu: “شیگا پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Shiga”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Shiga”
  • Vietnamese: “Tư Hạ Huyện”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shiga Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shiga”
  • Welsh: “Shiga”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیگا”
  • Wu Chinese: “滋贺县”
  • Yue Chinese: “滋賀”
  • Yue Chinese: “滋賀縣”
  • Yue Chinese: “滋贺县”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shiga”. Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.