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Nagasaki City
Nagasaki Prefecture · City
- Core city
- Prefectural capital
Official websiteNagasaki Prefecture page
Nagasaki City, the capital of Nagasaki Prefecture, was a port town that traded with the Netherlands and China through Dejima in the Edo period. Oura Church, Glover Garden, and Chinatown keep an exotic atmosphere, and Hashima Island ("Battleship Island") is a World Heritage Site. Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Museum convey the damage caused by the atomic bomb.
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.
Live information
Current weather (observed)
Places to visit
Chosen automatically, most popular first, from landmarks and cultural properties registered in Wikidata (we have not checked whether each is open). Names and descriptions: Wikidata (CC0); photos: Wikimedia Commons (photographer and license under each photo).
Mountains in this city
Mountains whose summit is in this municipality (mountains of 800 m or higher on this site's map, and mountains in the famous-mountain lists). Elevations from Wikidata and other sources.
Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Nagasaki Prefecture
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