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Shimabara

Shimabara is a city located in , , . As of 30 June 2024, the city had an estimated population of 42,181 in 19917 households, and a population density of 510 people per km2. The total area of the city is 170.13 km2.
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  • Type: City with 43,300 residents
  • Description: city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Shimabara, Nagasaki” and “Simabara”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shimabara Castle and Reikyukoen-Taiikukan.

Museum
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, also known as Moritake Castle and Takaki Castle, is a Japanese castle located in Shimabara, Hizen Province. This five-story white building stands in stark contrast to the black in neighboring Kumamoto Prefecture.

Railway station
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Reikūkōen-Taiikukan Station is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki. It is operated by third-sector railway company Shimabara Railway.

Lake
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Shimabara

Latitude
32.7881° or 32° 47′ 17″ north
Longitude
130.3705° or 130° 22′ 14″ east
Population
43,300
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP SMB
Open location code
8Q4GQ9QC+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3060250252
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1852479
Wiki­data ID
Q847594
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shimabara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيمبارا، ناغاساكي”
  • Arabic: “شيمبارا”
  • Asturian: “Shimabara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimabara”
  • Basque: “Shimabara”
  • Bengali: “শিমাবারা”
  • Bulgarian: “Шимабара”
  • Catalan: “Shimabara”
  • Cebuano: “Shimabara”
  • Chechen: “Симабара”
  • Chinese: “Simabara-chhī”
  • Chinese: “岛原市”
  • Chinese: “島原”
  • Chinese: “島原市”
  • Czech: “Šimabara”
  • Danish: “Shimabara”
  • Dutch: “Shimabara”
  • Finnish: “Shimabara”
  • French: “Shimabara”
  • Galician: “Shimabara”
  • German: “Shimabara”
  • Greek: “Σιμαμπάρα”
  • Gujarati: “શિમબારા”
  • Hebrew: “שימבארה”
  • Hindi: “शिमाबारा”
  • Hungarian: “Simabara”
  • Indonesian: “Shimabara”
  • Irish: “Shimabara”
  • Italian: “Shimabara”
  • Japanese: “Shimabara-Shi”
  • Japanese: “しまばらし”
  • Japanese: “島原”
  • Japanese: “島原市”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿಮಾಬರಾ”
  • Korean: “시마바라 시”
  • Korean: “시마바라”
  • Korean: “시마바라시”
  • Latvian: “Šimabara”
  • Literary Chinese: “島原市”
  • Lithuanian: “Šimabara”
  • Malay: “Shimabara”
  • Marathi: “शिमबारा”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمابارا، ناگازاکی”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمابارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Simabara-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimabara”
  • Persian: “شیمابارا، ناگازاکی”
  • Persian: “شیمابارا، ناگاساکی”
  • Persian: “شیمابارا”
  • Polish: “Shimabara”
  • Portuguese: “Shimabara”
  • Romanian: “Shimabara”
  • Russian: “Симабара”
  • Russian: “Шимабара”
  • Serbian: “Шимабара”
  • Sinhala: “ශිමම්බරා”
  • Slovenian: “Šimabara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمابارا، ناقاساکی”
  • Spanish: “Shimabara”
  • Swedish: “Shimabara”
  • Tagalog: “Shimabara, Nagasaki”
  • Tagalog: “Shimabara”
  • Tagalog: “Syimabara”
  • Tajik: “Şimabara”
  • Tajik: “Шимабара”
  • Tamil: “ஷிமபரா”
  • Tatar: “Симабара”
  • Telugu: “షిమాబారా”
  • Thai: “ชิมาบาระ”
  • Turkish: “Shimabara”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімабара”
  • Ukrainian: “Шімабара”
  • Urdu: “شیمابارا”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimabara, Nagasaki”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimabara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimabara, Nagasaki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimabara”
  • Yue Chinese: “島原”

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