Nagasaki

Nagasaki 長崎
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Location of Nagasaki in Nagasaki Prefecture
Nagasaki
Coordinates: 32°47′N 129°52′E / 32.783°N 129.867°E / 32.783; 129.867Coordinates: 32°47′N 129°52′E / 32.783°N 129.867°E / 32.783; 129.867
Kintra	Japan
Region	Kyushu
Prefectur	Nagasaki Prefectur
Destrict	N/A
Govrenment
• Mayor	Tomihisa Taue (2007-)
Area
• Total	406.35 km2 (156.89 sq mi)
• Laund	241.20 km2 (93.13 sq mi)
• Water	165.15 km2 (63.76 sq mi)
Population  (Januar 1, 2009)
• Total	446,007
• Density	1100/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time)
- Tree	Cheenese tallow tree
- Flouer	Hydrangea
Phone nummer	095-825-5151
Address	2-22 Sakura-machi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki-ken 850-8685
Website	www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp

Nagasaki (長崎市, Nagasaki-shi) (listen (help·info)) is the caipital an the lairgest ceety o Nagasaki Prefectur on the island o Kyushu in Japan. Nagasaki wis foondit bi the Portuguese in the seicont hauf o the 16t century on the steid o a smaa fishin veelage, formerly pairt o Nishisonogi Destrict. It acame a centre o Portuguese an ither European fowks' influence in the 16t throu 19t centuries, an the Kirks an Christian Steids in Nagasaki hae been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO Warld Heritage Leet. Pairt o Nagasaki wis home tae a major Imperial Japanese Navy base durin the First Sino-Japanese War an Russo-Japanese War. Its name means "long cape".

Durin Warld War II, the atomic bombins o Hiroshima an Nagasaki made Nagasaki the seicont an, tae date, last ceety in the warld tae experience a nuclear attack.^[1]

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