Yamagata

Yamagata Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the of . It has a population of 1,005,926 and an area of 9,325 km2. Its neighbours are to the north, to the east, to the south, and to the southwest.
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is the prefectural capital of prefecture. , the largest ski resort in Tohoku that doubles as a hot spring resort, is within city limits, but it's 40 minutes away bus and covered in a separate article.

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is a city in Yamagata. Due to its location on the Sea of Japan, the city has a large fishing industry. There is a fish market and many seafood restaurants, where one can enjoy freshly caught fish from the Sea of Japan.

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is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2020, the city had an estimated population of 125,389 in 49,024 households, and a population density of 95.74 persons per km2.

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is a city in Yamagata, . The walls and moats of its castle remain, and the grounds are a popular place for cherry blossom viewing in the spring.

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is a city in Yamagata, , known for exactly one thing: making pieces for shogi, also known as Japanese chess.

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Shinjō is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, . As of 1 January 2020, the city had an estimated population of 34,937, and a population density of 160 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 223.08 km2.

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is a city in Yamagata. 's main claim to fame is that it has one of the highest snowfalls in the entire world, with over two meters falling in an average winter, and they've even developed a special sharply peaked "flower hat" to stop snow accumulating on your head.

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, sometimes written Ohkura, is a village in Yamagata Prefecture, designated as one of the "Most Beautiful Villages in Japan". It's most known for Hijiori Onsen and Hijiori kokeshi.

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is in the northern region of the main island . means "Three Mountains of Dewa" and indeed comprises the three sacred mountains of Mt.

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Zaō Onsen, often simply called Zaō, is a ski and hot spring resort in Yamagata, , near the border with .

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is a hot spring village in Yamagata, . It belongs to the city of but is covered separately here.

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is a tiny hot spring village in Yamagata, . It belongs to the city of .

Yamagata

Latitude of center
38.4747° or 38° 28′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
140.0832° or 140° 4′ 60″ east
Population
1,070,000
Elevation
336 metres (1,102 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206841
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
2110554
Wiki­data ID
Q125863
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Yamagata” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Yamagata”
  • Afrikaans: “Yamagata Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Yamagata-prefektuur”
  • Amharic: “ያማጋታ”
  • Arabic: “محافظة ياماغاتا”
  • Arabic: “ياماغاتا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Yamagata”
  • Armenian: “Յամագաթա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
  • Armenian: “Յամագաթա”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Yamagata”
  • Asturian: “Yamagata (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Yamagata (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Yamagata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamaqata prefekturası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamaqata”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Yamagata”
  • Bashkir: “Ямагата (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Ямагата”
  • Basque: “Yamagata”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Ямагата”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагата (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагата”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামাগাতা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ямагата”
  • Burmese: “ယမဂတခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Yamagata”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Yamagata”
  • Cebuano: “Yamagata-ken”
  • Central Bikol: “Prepekturang Yamagata”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای یاماگاتا”
  • Central Kurdish: “یاماگاتا”
  • Chechen: “Ямагата (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Ямагата”
  • Chinese: “Yamagata-koān”
  • Chinese: “山形”
  • Chinese: “山形县”
  • Chinese: “山形縣”
  • Croatian: “Yamagata”
  • Czech: “prefektura Jamagata”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Jamagata”
  • Danish: “Yamagata-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Yamagata”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Jamagata”
  • Esperanto: “Jamagata”
  • Estonian: “Yamagata prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Yamagatan prefektuuri”
  • French: “préfecture de Yamagata”
  • French: “Préfecture de Yamagata”
  • French: “Yamagata”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Yamagata”
  • Gan Chinese: “山形县”
  • Gan Chinese: “山形縣”
  • Georgian: “იამაგატა”
  • Georgian: “იამაგატის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “JP-06”
  • German: “Präfektur Yamagata”
  • German: “Yamagata-ken”
  • German: “Yamagata”
  • Gorontalo: “Prefektur Yamagata”
  • Greek: “Νομός Γιαμάγκατα”
  • Gujarati: “યમાગાતા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yamagata-yen”
  • Hausa: “Yamagata”
  • Hebrew: “יאמאגטה”
  • Hindi: “यामागाटा प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Jamagata prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Prefectura ti Yamagata”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Yamagata”
  • Iloko: “Yamagata”
  • Inari Sami: “Yamagata prefektuur”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Yamagata”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Yamagata”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Yamagata”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Yamagata”
  • Japanese: “Yamagata-ken”
  • Japanese: “やまがたけん”
  • Japanese: “山形”
  • Japanese: “山形県”
  • Javanese: “Yamagata”
  • Kannada: “ಯಮಗತ”
  • Kannada: “ಯಮಗಾಟಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Yamagata”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តយ៉ាម៉ាកាតា”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តយ៉ាម៉ាហ្កាតា”
  • Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត យ៉ាម៉ាកាតា”
  • Kirghiz: “Yamagata”
  • Korean: “야마가따현”
  • Korean: “야마가타 현”
  • Korean: “야마가타현”
  • Latvian: “Jamagatas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “山形縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamagata prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamagatos prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Yamagata prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Јамагата”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Yamagata”
  • Malay: “Yamagata”
  • Manipuri: “ꯌꯥꯃꯥꯒꯥꯇꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “यामागाता प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “यामागाता”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yamagata-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamagata Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamagata-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamagata-kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “იამაგატაშ პრეფექტურა”
  • Mongolian: “Ямагата муж”
  • Mongolian: “Ямагата-кэн”
  • Nepali: “यामागाता”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Yamagata”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yamagata-ken”
  • Northern Sami: “Yamagata prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamagata prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yamagata prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Yamagata”
  • Novial: “Yamagata Prefekture”
  • Oromo: “Yamagata”
  • Ossetian: “Ямагатæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Ямагатæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਮਾਗਾਤਾ”
  • Persian: “استان ياماگاتا”
  • Persian: “استان یاماگاتا”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Yamagata”
  • Polish: “Yamagata”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Yamagata”
  • Portuguese: “Yamagata”
  • Pushto: “يامګاتا”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Yamagata”
  • Romanian: “Yamagata”
  • Russian: “Ямагата”
  • Scots: “Yamagata Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Jamagata”
  • Serbian: “Јамагата”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Јамагата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamagata”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Jamagata”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Yamagata”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yamagata”
  • Sinhala: “යමගතා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “යමගාටා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Yamagata prefektuur”
  • Slovak: “Jamagata”
  • Slovenian: “Jamagata”
  • Somali: “Yamagata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاماقاتا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Yamagata”
  • Spanish: “Yamagata Japon”
  • Spanish: “Yamagata Japón”
  • Spanish: “Yamagata”
  • Sundanese: “Yamagata Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Yamagata”
  • Swedish: “Yamagata prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Yamagata Prefecture”
  • Tajik: “Prefekturai Jamagata”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Ямагата”
  • Tamil: “யமாட்டா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tatar: “Ямагата”
  • Telugu: “యమగాతా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดยามางาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Yamagata prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Yamagata”
  • Uighur: “ياماگاتا ناھىيىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ямагата”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Ямаґата”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямаґата”
  • Urdu: “یاماگاتا پرفکترے”
  • Urdu: “یاماگاتا پریفیکچر”
  • Uzbek: “Yamagata prefekturasi”
  • Uzbek: “Yamagata”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamagata Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamagata”
  • Welsh: “Yamagata”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع یاماگاٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “山形县”
  • Yue Chinese: “山形”
  • Yue Chinese: “山形县”
  • Yue Chinese: “山形縣”
  • “ma Jamakata”

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