Goto
Sign in to saveAlso known as Goto City, Goto-shi, Gotō-shi, Gotō
city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Key facts
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Kyushu
- Prefecture
- Nagasaki Prefecture
- Mayor
- Futoshi Ideguchi (since September 2024)
- Total
- 420.81 km (162.48 sq mi)
- Density
- 89.767/km (232.50/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00 ( JST )
- City hall address
- 853-8501
- Climate
- Cfa
- Website
- www .city .goto .nagasaki .jp
- Bird
- Japanese white-eye
- Flower
- Crinum asiaticum
- Tree
- Ficus superba
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city of Japan
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Nagasaki Prefecture
- Population
- 40622
- Area
- 420.12
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Official website
- www.city.goto.nagasaki.jp
- Image
- Goto city office.JPG
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- inception
- 2004-08-01
- Commons category
- Goto, Nagasaki
- topic's main category
- Category:Gotō, Nagasaki
- native label
- 五島市
- name in kana
- ごとうし
- associated electoral district
- Nagasaki 3rd district
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- transliteration or transcription
- Goto-shi
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Gotō (五島市, Gotō-shi) is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It comprises the south-west half of the Gotō Islands plus (uninhabited) Danjo and Hizen Torishima archipelagos in the East China Sea. Although the core islands of the city lay some 100 kilometers from Nagasaki, the other archipelagos lay 60 km further to South-West. The city consists of 11 inhabited and 52 uninhabited islands. The three main islands of the city are Fukue, Hisaka, and Naru. As of March 31, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 37,775 and a population density of 90 persons per km. The total area is 420.81 km.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.