Nagano

Also known as Nagano City

city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan

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Nagano is a city located in Nagano Prefecture in central Japan. It is known internationally as the host city of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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It is catalogued under topics including Cities in Nagano Prefecture, Commons link is locally defined and Nagano (city).

Its subject is documented across 86 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Official name: 長野市
Population: 381511
Area: 834.85
Official website: www.city.nagano.nagano.jp
Image: Downtown Nagano.jpg
Dialing code: 26

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Commons category: Nagano, Nagano
Commons gallery: 長野市
native label: 長野市
inception: 1897-04-01
name in kana: ながのし
social media followers: 16493
external data available at URL: www.city.nagano.nagano.jp/site/opendata
postal code: 380-8512

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Encyclopedic overview

Nagano (長野市, Nagano-shi; Japanese pronunciation: [naꜜɡano, naɡanoꜜɕi]) is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture, located in the Nagano Basin (Zenkoji Daira) in the central Chūbu region of Japan. Nagano is categorized as a core city of Japan. Nagano City is the highest prefectural capital in Japan, with an altitude of 371.4 meters (1,219 ft).

The city is surrounded by mountains, the highest of which is Mount Takatsuma (2,353 m), and it is near the confluence of the Chikuma River—the longest and widest river in Japan—and the Sai River. As of 1 July 2023, the city had an estimated population of 365,296 in 160,625 households, and a population density of 438 persons per km². The total area of the city is 834.81 square kilometres (322.32 sq mi).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nagano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.