Shirakawa

Shirakawa is the southernmost city in Nakadori area of prefecture, with a population of approximately 60,000 people.
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Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋), CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: City with 59,500 residents
  • Description: city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Shirakawa-machi” and “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shin-Shirakawa and Komine Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a railway station in the village of , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Castle
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is a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Shirakawa, southern , . Throughout the middle to later Edo period, was home to the Abe clan, daimyō of Shirakawa Domain.

Railway station
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a railway station in the city of , Fukushima, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nishigo.

Village
Photo: Altomarina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nishigō is a village located in , . As of 1 March 2020, the village had an estimated population of 20,351 in 7618 households and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the village was 192.06 square kilometres.

Shirakawa

Latitude
37.1263° or 37° 7′ 35″ north
Longitude
140.2107° or 140° 12′ 39″ east
Population
59,500
Elevation
356 metres (1,168 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP SRW
Open location code
8R9246G6+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 734866093
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2111030
Wiki­data ID
Q750587
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shirakawa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيراكاوا، فوكوشيما”
  • Arabic: “شيراكاوا”
  • Asturian: “Shirakawa”
  • Bengali: “শিরাকাওয়া”
  • Catalan: “Shirakawa”
  • Cebuano: “Shirakawa Shi”
  • Chechen: “Сиракава”
  • Chinese: “Sirakawa-chhī”
  • Chinese: “白河市”
  • Czech: “Širakawa”
  • Danish: “Shirakawa”
  • Dutch: “Shirakawa”
  • Esperanto: “Shirakawa”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝirakaŭa”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝirakava”
  • Estonian: “Shirakawa”
  • Finnish: “Shirakawa”
  • French: “Shirakawa”
  • Galician: “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Galician: “Shirakawa”
  • Georgian: “შირაკავა”
  • German: “Shirakawa”
  • Greek: “Σορακάβα”
  • Gujarati: “શિરાકાવા”
  • Hindi: “शिराकावा”
  • Hungarian: “Sirakava”
  • Indonesian: “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Indonesian: “Shirakawa”
  • Irish: “Shirakawa”
  • Italian: “Shirakawa”
  • Japanese: “Shirakawa-shi”
  • Japanese: “しらかわし”
  • Japanese: “白河”
  • Japanese: “白河市”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿರಾಕವಾ”
  • Korean: “시라카와시”
  • Latvian: “Širakava”
  • Literary Chinese: “白河市”
  • Lithuanian: “Širakava”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Shirakawa”
  • Malay: “Shirakawa”
  • Marathi: “शिरकावा”
  • Mazanderani: “شیراکاوا، فوکوشیما”
  • Mazanderani: “شیراکاوا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sirakawa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shirakawa”
  • Persian: “شیراکاوا، فوکوشیما”
  • Persian: “شیراکاوا”
  • Polish: “Shirakawa”
  • Portuguese: “Shirakawa”
  • Romanian: “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Romanian: “Shirakawa”
  • Russian: “Сиракава”
  • Sinhala: “ශිරකවා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیراکاوا، فوکوشیما”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیراکاوا”
  • Spanish: “Shirakawa”
  • Swedish: “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Swedish: “Shirakawa”
  • Tagalog: “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Tagalog: “Shirakawa”
  • Tagalog: “Syirakawa”
  • Tajik: “Şirakava”
  • Tajik: “Ширакава”
  • Tamil: “ஷிராகவா”
  • Tatar: “Сиракава”
  • Telugu: “షిరకవ”
  • Thai: “ชิรากาวะ”
  • Turkish: “Shirakawa, Fukuşima”
  • Turkish: “Shirakawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіракава”
  • Ukrainian: “Шіракава”
  • Urdu: “شیراکاوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Vietnamese: “Shirakawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shirakawa, Fukushima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shirakawa”
  • Yue Chinese: “白河市”
  • “Shirakawa”

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