Shimoda
Shimoda is a city on the Izu Peninsula in Japan. It is famous as the place where Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy arrived with his "black ships" in 1853.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Izukyushimoda and Shimoda Ropeway.
Shimoda Sea Aquarium
Public aquarium
Photo: キッコーマソ, Public domain.Shimoda
- Categories: city of Japan, port city, and locality
- Location: Shimoda, Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.6795° or 34° 40′ 46″ north
Longitude
138.9454° or 138° 56′ 43″ east
Population
22,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Established
January 1st, 1971
UN/LOCODE
JP SMD
Open location code
8Q6WMWHW+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shimoda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shimoda”
- Arabic: “شيمودا، شيزوكا”
- Arabic: “شيمودا”
- Armenian: “Սիմոդա”
- Asturian: “Shimoda”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimoda”
- Bengali: “শিমোদা”
- Bulgarian: “Шимода”
- Catalan: “Shimoda”
- Cebuano: “Shimoda”
- Chechen: “Симода”
- Chinese: “下田市”
- Czech: “Šimoda”
- Danish: “Shimoda”
- Dutch: “Shimoda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيمودا”
- Esperanto: “Shimoda”
- Esperanto: “Ŝimoda”
- Estonian: “Shimoda”
- Finnish: “Shimoda”
- French: “Shimoda”
- Galician: “Shimoda”
- German: “Shimoda”
- Greek: “Σιμόντα”
- Gujarati: “શિમોડા”
- Hindi: “शिमोदा”
- Hungarian: “Simoda”
- Indonesian: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
- Indonesian: “Shimoda”
- Irish: “Shimoda”
- Italian: “Shimoda”
- Japanese: “Shimoda-shi”
- Japanese: “しもだし”
- Japanese: “下田”
- Japanese: “下田市”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಮೊಡಾ”
- Korean: “시모다 시”
- Korean: “시모다시”
- Latvian: “Šimoda”
- Literary Chinese: “下田市”
- Lithuanian: “Šimoda”
- Malay: “Shimoda”
- Marathi: “शिमोडा”
- Mazanderani: “شیمودا، شیزوئوکا”
- Mazanderani: “شیمودا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Simoda-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimoda”
- Norwegian: “Shimoda”
- Persian: “شیمودا، شیزوئوکا”
- Persian: “شیمودا”
- Polish: “Shimoda”
- Portuguese: “Shimoda”
- Romanian: “Shimoda”
- Russian: “Симода”
- Sinhala: “ශිමොඩා”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیمودا، شیزوئوکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیمودا”
- Spanish: “Shimoda”
- Swedish: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
- Swedish: “Shimoda”
- Tagalog: “Shimoda”
- Tagalog: “Syimoda”
- Tajik: “Şimoda”
- Tajik: “Шимода”
- Tamil: “ஷிமோடா”
- Tatar: “Симода”
- Telugu: “షిమోద”
- Thai: “ชิโมดะ”
- Turkish: “Shimoda”
- Turkish: “Şimoda”
- Ukrainian: “Сімода”
- Ukrainian: “Шімода”
- Urdu: “شیمودا”
- Urdu: “شیموڈا، شیزوکا”
- Vietnamese: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
- Vietnamese: “Shimoda”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shimoda”
- Yue Chinese: “下田”
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