Takamatsu

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Takamatsu

Total population

426,514

Air quality index

56Moderate

WeatherAvg high 68.1°F

Coordinates34.34°, 134.05°

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

Overview

Takamatsu is the capital city of Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2022, the city had an estimated population of 414,134 in 190,120 households and a population density of 1,100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 375.41 square kilometres (144.95 sq mi). It is the capital city of the prefecture.

Geography

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

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

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

Shibano Ritsuzan

B

Bunzō Ninomiya

Japanese politician

Megumi Inoue

basketball player (1990-)

Y

Yumiko Inoue

Japanese professional wrestler

A

Akira Isaka

K

Kenzō Itō

Japanese announcer

N

Noriko Date

S

Shūji Fuseya

Japanese politician

Y

Yukinobu Sumitani

association football player

K

Kiyoshi Sasaki

Japanese baseball player

Satachi Shichijirō

Japanese architect (1857-1922)

T

Tan Maekawa

Japanese politician

T

Tamami Maeda

Japanese announcer

T

Tsunetarō Katō

Japanese politician

S

Shigeaki Katsunuma

Japanese politician

Hajime Togaeri

Japanese literary critic

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

Nearby places in Kagawa

• Miki
  7.2 mi away · pop. 27,684
• Sanuki
  7.3 mi away · pop. 48,816
• Naoshima
  8.6 mi away · pop. 3,139
• Ayagawa
  9.5 mi away · pop. 23,610
• Sakaide
  10.8 mi away · pop. 426,514
• Tonosho
  12.7 mi away · pop. 14,002
• Utazu
  12.8 mi away · pop. 18,952
• 上西
  13.2 mi away
• Marugame
  14.6 mi away · pop. 426,514
• Manno
  15.7 mi away · pop. 18,377
• Kotohira
  16.5 mi away · pop. 9,186
• Zentsuji
  16.8 mi away · pop. 32,451

Browse all places in Kagawa →

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 Takamatsu

Enza sonshi

Enza Kōminkan, Takamatsu, Kagawa (Prefecture) · 1957

Bioinformatics

International Symposium on Information Transduction and Processing in Biological Systems (1989 Takamatsu-shi, Japan) · 1989

Reliability and optimization of structural systems, V

IFIP WG7.5 Working Conference (5th 1993 Takamatsu-shi, Japan) · 1993

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology

International Conference on Active Media Technology (3rd 2005 Kagawa-gun, Japan) · 2005

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Anesthetic Mechanism

International Workshop on Anesthetic Mechanism (2nd 1999 Takamatsu-shi, Japan) · 2000

Shasei gajō

Kagawa Kenritsu Myūjiamu · 2012

Shinshū Takamatsu-shi shi

Kagawa (Prefecture). Shishi Henshūshitsu Takamatsu · 1964

Takamatsu Kōgei hyakunenshi

Kagawa Kenritsu Takamatsu Kōgei Kōtō Gakkō. Hyakushūnen Kinenshi Hensan Iinkai · 1998

Search results from Open Library.

Gallery

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