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Nisshin City
Aichi Prefecture · City
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Nisshin City is at the eastern end of the Owari region, bordering Nagoya City to the east, and is a rural academic city with many universities and research institutions. It urbanized rapidly with the opening of the subway Tsurumai Line and others, and its population growth rate once ranked 1st among Japan's cities. The ruins of Iwasaki Castle, known from the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, are here.
Key facts
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture
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