Nagasaki, Japan

Nagasaki
長崎市

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Nickname(s): "City of Peace", "Naples of the Orient"

Map of Nagasaki Prefecture with Nagasaki highlighted in pink

Nagasaki

Japan

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Government

• Mayor

Area

• Total

406.35 km² (156.89 sq mi)

• Land

241.20 km² (93.13 sq mi)

• Water

165.15 km² (63.76 sq mi)

Population (March 1, 2017)

• Total

425,723

• Density

1,000/km² (2,700/sq mi)

- Tree

- Flower

Phone number

095-825-5151

Address

2-22 Sakura-machi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki-ken
850-8685

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Nagasaki (長崎市^?, Nagasaki-shi, Japanese: [nàgáꜜsàkì]) ( listen ) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became a centre of Portuguese and Dutch influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and the Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Its name means "long cape".

During World War II, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack.