Nagasaki

Nagasaki (長崎市; -shi, literally "long peninsula") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located on the south-western coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four mainland islands of Japan. It was a center of European influence in medieval Japan from first contact through the era of isolationists efforts to block outside contact until the opening of Japan and the resultant modernization efforts of Japan during the Meiji Restoration. It became a major Japanese Navy Fleet Base during the First Sino-Japanese war and Russo-Japanese war and eventually was the second city on which an atomic bomb was dropped by the US during World War II.

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Nagasaki lies at the head of a long bay which forms the best natural harbor on the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu. The main commercial and residential area of the city lies on a small plain near the end of the bay. Two rivers divided by a mountain spur form the two main valleys in which the city lies. The heavily built-up area of the city is confined by the terrain to less than 4 square miles.

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As of 2004 the population of the city is 447,419 and its size in square kilometres is 338.72 or about 130 sq.mi making it a fairly large city by Japanese standards in relation to its population level.

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Nagasaki related Images and Photos (experimental)

Nagasaki: The Merchant Ship Amboina Captain J.Lourens 1842

White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DVD)

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