Hiroshima

Hiroshima 広島
Designatit ceety
広島市 · Hiroshima Ceety
Frae tap left: Hiroshima Castle, basebaw gemme o Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Hiroshima Municipal Basebaw Stadium, Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome), nicht view o Ebisu-cho, Shukkei-en (Asano Pairk)
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Location o Hiroshima in Hiroshima Prefectur
Hiroshima
Coordinates: 34°23′7″N 132°27′19″E / 34.38528°N 132.45528°E / 34.38528; 132.45528Coordinates: 34°23′7″N 132°27′19″E / 34.38528°N 132.45528°E / 34.38528; 132.45528
Kintra	Japan
Region	Chūgoku, Sanyō
Prefectur	Hiroshima
Govrenment
• Mayor	Kazumi Matsui
Area
• Total	905.01 km2 (349.43 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	1.196.274
• Density	1297.2/km2 (3,360/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time)
- Tree	Camphor Laurel
- Flower	Oleander
Phone number	082-245-2111
Address	1-6-34 Kokutaiji, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-shi 730-8586
Website	Hiroshima Ceety

Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi) (listen (help·info)) is the caipital o Hiroshima Prefectur, an the lairgest ceety in the Chūgoku region o wastren Honshu, the lairgest island o Japan. It is best kent as the first ceety in history tae be destroyed bi a nuclear wappen when the Unitit States Airmy Air Forces (USAAF) droppit an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945, near the end o World War II.^[1] Its name 広島 means "Wide Island".

Hiroshima gained ceety status on 1 Aprile 1889. On 1 Aprile 1980, Hiroshima became a designatit ceety.

1. ↑ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.