Hiroshima
(Reguidit frae 広島)
Hiroshima 広島 | |
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| 広島市 · Hiroshima Ceety | |
 Frae tap left: Hiroshima Castle, basebaw gemme o Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Hiroshima Municipal Basebaw Stadium, Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome), nicht view o Ebisu-cho, Shukkei-en (Asano Pairk) | |
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 Location o Hiroshima in Hiroshima Prefectur | |
  Hiroshima | |
| Coordinates: 34°23′7″N 132°27′19″E / 34.38528°N 132.45528°ECoordinates: 34°23′7″N 132°27′19″E / 34.38528°N 132.45528°E | |
| Kintra | Japan |
| Region | Chūgoku, Sanyō |
| Prefectur | Hiroshima |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Kazumi Matsui |
| Area | |
| • Total | 905.01 km2 (349.43 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 1.196.274 |
| • Density | 1297.2/km2 (3,360/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time) |
| - Tree | Camphor Laurel |
| - Flower | Oleander |
| Phone number | 082-245-2111 |
| Address | 1-6-34 Kokutaiji, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-shi 730-8586 |
| Website | Hiroshima Ceety |
Hiroshima (広島市 Hiroshima-shi) (
listen (help·info)) is the caipital o Hiroshima Prefectur, an the lairgest ceety in the Chūgoku region o wastren Honshu, the lairgest island o Japan. It is best kent as the first ceety in history tae be destroyed bi a nuclear wappen when the Unitit States Airmy Air Forces (USAAF) droppit an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945, near the end o World War II.[1] Its name 広島 means "Wide Island".
Hiroshima gained ceety status on 1 Aprile 1889. On 1 Aprile 1980, Hiroshima became a designatit ceety.
Internaitional relations
[eedit | edit soorce]Twin touns an sister ceeties
[eedit | edit soorce]Hiroshima haes sax owerseas sister ceeties:[2]
Honolulu, Unitit States (1959)
Volgograd, Roushie (1972)[3]
Hanover, Germany (1983)[4]
Chongqing, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (1986)
Daegu, Sooth Korea (1997)
Montreal, Canadae (1998)
Athin Japan, Hiroshima haes a seemilar relationship wi Nagasaki.
Notes
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
- ↑ "Introduction to our Sister and Friendship Cities". City.hiroshima.jp. Archived frae the original on 28 August 2011. Retrieved 10 Mey 2010.
- ↑ "Friendly relationship at Official website of Volgograd". Volgadmin.ru. 1 December 1994. Retrieved 13 Juin 2011.
- ↑ "Hanover - Twin Towns" (in German). © 2007-2009 Hanover.de - Offizielles Portal der Landeshauptstadt und der Region Hannover in Zusammenarbeit mit hier.de. Archived frae the original on 24 Julie 2011. Retrieved 17 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in
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