Shizuoka, Shizuoka

Shizuoka 静岡
Designatit ceety
静岡市 · City of Shizuoka
Tap left: Shizuoka Sengen Shrine; Tap richt: Nihondaira Stadium Middle: Munt Fuji & Shimizu Port frae Nihondaira Upper bottom left Green tea fields; Lawer bottom left Toro ruins; Bottom richt: Tatsumi yagura o Sunpu Castle
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Location of Shizuoka in Shizuoka
Coordinates: 34°59′N 138°23′E
Kintra	Japan
Region	Chūbu
Prefectur	Shizuoka
Govrenment
• Mayor	Tanabe Nobuhiro
Area
• Total	1,411.85 km2 (545.12 sq mi)
Population  (Februar 2012)
• Tot	723,317
• Density	507/km2 (1,310/sq mi)
Symbols
• Tree	Flouering Dugwid
• Flouer	Hollyhock
• Bird	Common Kingfisher
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time)
City Hall Address	5-1 Ōtemachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken 420-8602
Wabsteid	www.city.shizuoka.jp/english/

Shizuoka (静岡市, Shizuoka-shi) is the caipital ceety o Shizuoka Prefectur, Japan, an the prefectur's seicont-lairgest ceety in terms o baith population an aurie. It haes been populatit syne prehistoric times.

The ceety's name is made up o twa kanji, 静—shizu, meanin "still" or "calm"; an 岡—oka, meanin "hill(s)". In 1869, Shizuoka Domain wis first creatit oot o the aulder Sunpu Domain, an that name wis retained when the ceety wis incorporatit in 1885. In 2003, Shizuoka merged wi Shimizu Ceety (nou Shimizu Waird), briefly acoming the lairgest ceety bi land aurie in Japan. In 2005, it acame ane o Japan's 19 "designatit ceeties".

Sister an friendship ceeties

Shizuoka haes twin an friendship relationships wi several ceeties.

Twin ceeties

Owerseas

• Stockton, Californie, Unitit States (syne October 16, 1959)
• Omaha, Nebraska, Unitit States (syne Aprile 1, 1965)
• Shelbyville, Indiana, Unitit States (syne November 3, 1989)
• Cannes, Fraunce (syne November 5, 1991)

Within Japan

• Muroran, Hokkaidō (syne December 24, 1976)
• Jōetsu, Niigata (syne October 12, 1995)

Friendship ceeties

Owerseas

• Huế, Vietnam (syne Aprile 12, 2005)

Within Japan

• Saku, Nagano (syne October 12, 1989)

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid in Inglis an ither leids
• Daidogei Warld Cup in Shizuoka