See soorce fer Hiroshima

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| name                    = Hiroshima
| official_name           = 広島市 · Hiroshima Ceety
| native_name             = 広島
| native_name_lang        = ja
| settlement_type         = [[Ceety designatit bi govrenment ordinance|Designatit ceety]]
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|image_caption           = 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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| map_caption             = <small>Location o Hiroshima in [[Hiroshima Prefectur]]</small>
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| subdivision_name2       = [[Hiroshima Prefectur|Hiroshima]]
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| leader_name             = [[Kazumi Matsui]]
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| blank_info_sec2         = 082-245-2111
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| blank1_info_sec2        = 1-6-34 Kokutaiji,<br />Naka-ku, Hiroshima-shi 730-8586
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| website                 = [http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/www/toppage/0000000000000/APM03000.html Hiroshima Ceety]
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{{Nihongo|'''Hiroshima'''|広島市|''Hiroshima-shi''}} ({{Audio|ja-Hiroshima.ogg|listen}}) 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) [[Atomic bombins o Hiroshima an Nagasaki|droppit an atomic bomb]] on it at 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945, near the end o [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book  | last = Hakim  | first = Joy | title = A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz  | publisher = Oxford University Press  | year = 1995  | location = New York | pages = | isbn = 0-19-509514-6 }}</ref> Its name 広島 means "Wide Island".

Hiroshima gained ceety status on 1 Aprile 1889. On 1 Aprile 1980, Hiroshima became a [[Ceety designatit bi govrenment ordinance|designatit ceety]].

== Internaitional relations ==
{{See an aa|Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Japan}}

=== Twin touns an sister ceeties ===
Hiroshima haes sax owerseas [[twin touns an sister ceeties|sister ceeties]]:<ref name="Hiroshima" >{{cite web |url=http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/shimin/kokusai/shimai/top-e.html |title=Introduction to our Sister and Friendship Cities |publisher=City.hiroshima.jp |accessdate=2010-05-10 |archive-date=2011-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828102724/http://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/shimin/kokusai/shimai/top-e.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

*{{Flagicon|United States}} [[Honolulu]], Unitit States (1959)
*{{Flagicon|Russia}} [[Volgograd]], Roushie (1972)<ref name = "Volgograd">{{cite web|url=http://www.volgadmin.ru/EN2/Municipality/FriendlyRelationship.aspx |title=Friendly relationship at Official website of Volgograd |publisher=Volgadmin.ru |date=1994-12-01 |accessdate=2011-06-13}}</ref>
*{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[Hanover]], Germany (1983)<ref name="Hanover">{{cite web|url=http://www.hannover.de/de/buerger/entwicklung/partnerschaften/staedte_regionspartnerschaften/index.html|title=Hanover - Twin Towns|publisher=[[copyright|©]] 2007-2009 [http://www.hanover.de/ Hanover.de] - Offizielles Portal der Landeshauptstadt und der Region Hannover in Zusammenarbeit mit hier.de|language=German|accessdate=2009-07-17|archive-date=2011-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724012346/http://www.hannover.de/de/buerger/entwicklung/partnerschaften/staedte_regionspartnerschaften/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*{{Flagicon|China}} [[Chongqing]], Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (1986)
*{{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Daegu]], Sooth Korea (1997)
*{{Flagicon|Canada}} [[Montreal]], Canadae (1998)

Athin Japan, Hiroshima haes a seemilar relationship wi [[Nagasaki]].

== Notes ==
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{{Metropolitan ceeties o Japan}}

[[Category:Hiroshima| ]]
[[Category:Ceeties in Hiroshima Prefectur]]
[[Category:Atomic bombins o Hiroshima an Nagasaki]]
[[Category:Populatit places established in 1589]]
[[Category:Port dounsets in Japan]]
[[Category:Populatit coastal places in Japan]]
[[Category:Warld War II steids in Japan]]


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