Hiroshima

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Hiroshima

Total population

1,200,754

Coordinates34.39°, 132.45°

Demographic figures from Statistics Bureau of Japan. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Setsuo Akinoumi

sumo wrestler (1914–1979)

Yusuke Tasaka

Japanese association football player

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Tetsuya Yamanouchi

Japanese film director (1934-2010)

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Hiromi Hirata

Japanese voice actress

Sadako Sasaki

Japanese origami artist

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Katsuhiro Minamoto

Japanese association football player

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Taro Goto

Japanese association football player

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Shinichiro Takahashi

Japanese association football player and manager

Tamiki Hara

Japanese writer

Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi

surgeon in the Imperial Japanese Army

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Shinji Takehara

Japanese boxer

Masato Morishige

Japanese association football player

Mikio Oda

Japanese triple jumper, long jumper (track and field), coach, journalist (1905-1998)

Yoshinori Natsume

Japanese manga artist

Miekichi Suzuki

Japanese writer (1882-1936)

Mana

Japanese musician and record producer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Hiroshima

Hiroshima

John Hersey · 1702

Hiroshima mon amour

Marguerite Duras · 1960

Watashi no Hiroshima

Junko Morimoto · 1987

The last train from Hiroshima

Charles R. Pellegrino · 2010

A Soul Remembers Hiroshima

Dolores Cannon · 1993

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Paul Ham · 2011

Hiroshima diary

Michihiko Hachiya · 1955

Barefoot Gen Vol. 4, Barefoot Gen Vol. 5 (Splitting Works needed)

中沢 啓治 · 1978

Search results from Open Library.

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