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Matsuura City
Nagasaki Prefecture · City
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Matsuura City faces Imari Bay in the northern Kitamatsuura Peninsula and is the birthplace of the medieval Matsura League. It lands the most horse mackerel in Japan and calls itself the "holy land of fried horse mackerel." Off Takashima Island, ships sunk in the Mongol invasions were found; the area is a national historic site, the Takashima Kozaki Site.
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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
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Other municipalities in Nagasaki Prefecture
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