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Nagoya (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 35 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.1333 decimal degrees |
Long: 136 53 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 136.8833 decimal degrees |
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Note: Major industrial center producing textiles, lumber, motor vehicles, aircraft, chemicals & ceramics; has 17th-cen. castle & Buddhist temple; was bombed heavily in World War II, but entirely reconstructed since. |
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Nagoya (preferred,C,V,O,Japanese (transliterated)-P)
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Nagoja (C,O)
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Nagoyashi (C,U,Japanese (transliterated))
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Nagoya-shi (C,U,Japanese (transliterated))
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ナゴヤシ (C,U,Japanese)
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ナゴヤ (C,U,Japanese)
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なごや (C,U,Japanese)
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名古屋 (C,U,Japanese)
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なごやし (C,U,Japanese)
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名古屋市 (C,U,Japanese-P)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Aichi (prefecture) (P) |
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Nagoya (inhabited place) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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known since construction of its castle, 1610 |
city (C) |
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modernized after 1610 |
regional capital (C) |
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port (C) |
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opened 1907 |
industrial center (C) |
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educational center (C) |
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