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Yokohama (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 28 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.4667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 139 38 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 139.6333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Visited by Commodore Perry 1854; site of foreign settlement after 1859; harbor completed 1896; extraterritorial rights of foreign settlement abolished 1899; almost destroyed by earthquake & fire 1923; largely destroyed by US bombing 1945, later rebuilt. |
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| Yokohama (preferred,C,V,O,Japanese (transliterated)-P)
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| Iokoama (C,O)
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| Jokohama (C,O)
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| Yokohama-shi (C,U,Japanese (transliterated))
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| Yokohamashi (C,U,Japanese (transliterated))
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| 横浜市 (C,U,Japanese-P)
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| 横浜 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ヨコハマシ (C,U,Japanese)
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| ヨコハマ (C,U,Japanese)
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| よこはま (C,U,Japanese)
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| よこはまし (C,U,Japanese)
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Yokohama (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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small fishing village greatly expanded in 19th cen. |
| city (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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| fishing community (H) |
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during feudal era |
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