Nagoya

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Nagoya

Total population

2,236,000

Air quality index

29Good

Coordinates35.19°, 136.90°

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

Overview

Nagoya is the capital and most populous city of Aichi Prefecture in Japan. It is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city in Japan, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is itself the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan. Nagoya is located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, and its seaport is the largest in Japan.

Geography

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

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

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

Minamoto no Yoritomo

1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1147–1199)

Último Dragón

Japanese professional wrestler

Atsunori Inaba

Japanese baseball player

T

Takuya Ishida

Japanese actor

Maeda Toshimasu

Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period

K

Kazuki Kato

Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor

Katsuhiko Yamada

Japanese baseball player

Niwa Nagahide

daimyo (1535-1585)

M

Minayo Watanabe

Japanese idol and singer

Maiko Itō

Japanese actress, talent, former idol singer

Akihiro Maeda

baseball player

D

Daihi Susumu

sumo wrestler

K

Kiyoshi Hatanaka

Japanese boxer, world champion

Masaru Takeda

baseball player

Takahide Kimura

Japanese politician

Tamaasuka Daisuke

sumo wrestler

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

Nearby places in Aichi

• Shinsakaemachi
  1.3 mi away
• 垣戸町
  1.5 mi away
• 瑠璃光町
  1.7 mi away
• 千成通
  2.4 mi away
• Kiyosu
  2.8 mi away · pop. 69,079
• 振甫町
  3 mi away
• 城山町
  3.5 mi away
• Oharu
  4.4 mi away · pop. 30,990
• Kitanagoya
  4.6 mi away · pop. 85,369
• Minomachi
  4.6 mi away
• Toyoyama
  4.6 mi away · pop. 15,177
• 松陰
  5.4 mi away

Browse all places in Aichi →

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 Nagoya

Hyakunenmae no Chūkyō Nagoya

Hideki Abe · 2016

Proceedings of 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (1995 Nagoya-shi, Japan) · 1995

APSEC 2007

Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (14th 2007 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan) · 2007

2012 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS 2012)

Japan) International Symposium on Micro-Nanomechatronics and Human Science (23rd 2012 Nagoya-shi · 2012

ICMI '07

Japan) ICMI (Conference) (9th 2007 Nagoya-shi · 2007

IECON 2000

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Conference · 2000

Aichi no shizen wotchingu

Aichi-ken (Japan) · 1990

Aichi no tsuchiningyō

Nagoya-shi Hakubutsukan · 1994

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Green-spored Parasol

Chlorophyllum molybdites

Seen 2026-07-01

Golden Flangetail

Sinictinogomphus clavatus

Seen 2026-06-29

Two-banded Japanese Weevil

Pseudocneorhinus bifasciatus

Seen 2026-06-28

Amanita chatamagotake

Amanita chatamagotake

Seen 2026-06-26

Milk-white Toothed Polypore

Irpex lacteus

Seen 2026-06-26

turkey-tail

Trametes versicolor

Seen 2026-06-26

Oriental Beetle

Exomala orientalis

Seen 2026-06-24

Painted Lady

Vanessa cardui

Seen 2026-06-24

Common Bluebottle

Graphium sarpedon

Seen 2026-06-23

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers