Nagasaki
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Nagasaki is the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It is an important city in Japanese geography and serves as the administrative center of its prefecture.
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- Nagasaki City
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- Prefecture capital and core city
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- City of PeaceNaples of the Orient
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- Map of Nagasaki Prefecture with Nagasaki highlighted in dark pink
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- History
- Nagasaki as a Jesuit port of call
- Seclusion era
- Meiji Japan
- Atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War II
- Contemporary era
- Geography
- Climate
- Education
- Universities
- Junior colleges
- Economy
- Transportation
- Demographics
- Sports
- Main sites
- Cityscape
- Events
- Cuisine
- Notable people
- Sister cities
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
, officially , is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Founded by the Portuguese, the port of Nagasaki became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region have been recognized and included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Near the end of World War II, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second city in the world to experience a nuclear attack. The city was later rebuilt.