Hiroshima
Hiroshima is an industrial city of wide boulevards and criss-crossing rivers along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. Although many only know it for the horrific split-second on August 6, 1945 when it became the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, it is now a modern cosmopolitan city with excellent cuisine and a bustling nightlife.Photo: Fg2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors: Akitakata, Hatsukaichi, Higashihiroshima and Kure
Photo: Deanpemberton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Voogd075, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Carp castle
Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hiroshima Castle, sometimes called Carp Castle, is a castle in Hiroshima, Japan that was the residence of the daimyō of the Hiroshima Domain.
Shukkei-en
Photo: Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0.
Shukkei-en is a historic Japanese garden in the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center is an indoor arena located in Hiroshima, Japan.
Localities in the Area
Nishi-ku
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nishi-ku is one of eight wards in the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Minami-ku
Photo: Lemon-s, Public domain.
Minami-ku is one of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Naka-ku
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Naka-ku is the heart of Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
Hiroshima
- Categories: city designated by government ordinance, prefectural capital of Japan, port settlement, big city, city of Japan and locality
- Location: Hiroshima, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.3917° or 34° 23' 30" northLongitude
132.4518° or 132° 27' 6" eastPopulation
1,200,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)IATA airport code
HIJUnited Nations Location Code
JP HIJOpen Location Code
8Q6J9FR2+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1590291928OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1862415Wikidata ID
Q34664Hiroshima Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Afar: Xirosima
- Afrikaans: Hiroshima
- Afrikaans: Hirosjima
- Albanian: Hiroshima
- Amharic: ሂሮሺማ
- Arabic: Hiroshima
- Arabic: هيروشيما
- Arabic: هيروشيما، هيروشيما
- Arabic: هيروشيما اليابانية
- Arabic: ولاية هيروشيما
- Aragonese: Hiroshima
- Armenian: Հիրոսիմա
- Asturian: Hiroshima
- Azerbaijani: Hiroşima
- Balinese: Hiroshima
- Basque: Hiroshima
- Belarusian: Хірасіма
- Bengali: হিরোশিমা
- Bengali: 広島
- Bengali: 廣島
- Bosnian: Hiroshima
- Bosnian: Hirošima
- Brahui: Híroşímá
- Breton: Hiroshima
- Bulgarian: Хирошима
- Burmese: ဟီရိုရှီးမားမြို့
- Catalan: Hiroshima
- Cebuano: Hiroshima-shi (distrito)
- Cebuano: Hiroshima-shi (kapital sa prepektura)
- Cebuano: Hiroshima-shi
- Central Bikol: Hiroshima, Hapon
- Central Bikol: Hiroshima
- Central Kurdish: ھیرۆشیما
- Chechen: Хиросима
- Chinese: Hirosima-chhī
- Chinese: 广岛市
- Chinese: 廣島
- Chinese: 廣島市
- Chuvash: Хиросима
- Croatian: Hiroshima
- Croatian: Hirošima
- Czech: Hirošima
- Danish: Hiroshima
- Dutch: Hiroshima
- Egyptian Arabic: هيروشيما
- English: Hiroshima City
- Esperanto: Hiroshima
- Esperanto: Hiroŝima
- Esperanto: Hiroŝimo
- Estonian: Hiroshima
- Extremaduran: Hiroshima
- Faroese: Hiroshima
- Finnish: Hiroshima
- Finnish: Hirosima
- Finnish: Hirošima
- French: Hirochima
- French: Hiroshima
- Galician: Hiroshima
- Galician: Hiroxima - 広島市
- Galician: Hiroxima
- Georgian: ჰიროსიმა
- Georgian: ჰიროშიმა
- German: Hiroschima
- German: Hiroshima
- Greek: Χιροσίμα
- Gujarati: હિરોશિમા
- Hebrew: הירושימה
- Hindi: हिरोशिमा
- Hungarian: Hiroshima
- Hungarian: Hirosima-si
- Hungarian: Hirosima
- Hungarian: 広島市
- Icelandic: Hiroshima
- Ido: Hiroshima
- Indonesian: Hiroshima-shi
- Indonesian: Hiroshima
- Indonesian: Kota Hiroshima
- Indonesian: 広島市
- Interlingua: Hiroshima
- Irish: An tIoraisme
- Irish: Hiroshima
- Italian: Hiroshima
- Japanese: 3Bの街
- Japanese: Hiroshima-shi
- Japanese: Hiroshima
- Japanese: Hiroshimashi
- Japanese: ひろしま
- Japanese: ひろしまし
- Japanese: ヒロシマ
- Japanese: ヒロシマシ
- Japanese: 広島
- Japanese: 広島区
- Japanese: 広島市
- Japanese: 廣島市
- Japanese: 廣嶋
- Javanese: Hiroshima, Hiroshima
- Javanese: Hiroshima
- Kannada: ಹಿರೋಶಿಮ
- Kannada: ಹಿರೋಶಿಮಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Xirosima
- Kikuyu: Hiroshima
- Kinyarwanda: Hiroshima
- Kirghiz: Хиросима
- Korean: 히로시마
- Korean: 히로시마 시
- Korean: 히로시마시
- Korean: 히로시마현 히로시마시
- Korean: 히로시마 현 히로시마 시
- Kurdish: Hîroşîma
- Latin: Hiroshima
- Latin: Hirosima
- Latvian: Hiroshima
- Latvian: Hirosima
- Latvian: Hirošima
- Lingua Franca Nova: Hiroxima
- Literary Chinese: 廣島市
- Lithuanian: Hiroshima
- Lithuanian: Hirosima
- Lithuanian: Hirošima
- Lithuanian: Hirošimos miestas
- Luxembourgish: Hiroshima
- Macedo-Romanian: Hiroshima
- Macedonian: Хирошима
- Malagasy: Hiroshima
- Malay: Hiroshima
- Malayalam: Hiroshima
- Malayalam: ഹിരോഷിമ
- Maltese: Hiroshima
- Maltese: Ħiroxima
- Maori: Hiroshima
- Marathi: हिरोशिमा
- Mazanderani: هیروشیما
- Min Nan Chinese: Hiroshima-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Hirosima-chhī
- Mongolian: Хирошима
- Nepali: हिरोशिमा
- Northern Frisian: Hiroshima
- Norwegian: Hiroshima
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hiroshima
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Hiroshima
- Occitan (post 1500): Hiroshima
- Ossetian: Хиросимæ
- Panjabi: ਹੀਰੋਸ਼ੀਮਾ
- Persian: هیروشیما
- Piemontese: Hiroshima
- Polish: Hiroshima
- Polish: Hirosima
- Polish: Hiroszima
- Pontic: Χιροσίμα
- Portuguese: Hiroshima
- Portuguese: Hiroxima
- Pushto: هیروشیما
- Quechua: Hiroshima
- Romanian: Hiroshima
- Romanian: Hiroşima
- Romanian: Hiroșima
- Russian: Хиросима
- Russian: Хиросима Хиросима
- Rusyn: Гирошима
- Sardinian: Hiroshima
- Scots: Hiroshima
- Serbian: Hiroshima
- Serbian: Хирошима
- Serbian: 広島市
- Serbo-Croatian: Hiroshima
- Serbo-Croatian: Hirošima
- Sicilian: Hiroshima
- Silesian: Hiroszima
- Silesian: Hirošima
- Sinhala: හිරෝෂිමා
- Slovak: Hirošima
- Slovenian: Hirošima
- South Azerbaijani: هیروشیما
- Spanish: Hiroshima
- Spanish: Hiroshima Hiroshima
- Spanish: 広島
- Spanish: 広島市
- Sundanese: Hiroshima
- Swahili: Hiroshima
- Swedish: Hiroshima
- Swiss German: Hiroschima
- Swiss German: Hiroshima
- Tagalog: Hiroshima
- Tagalog: Hirosyima
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Hiroshima
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Hirosyima
- Tajik: Ҳирошима
- Tamil: இரோசிமா
- Tamil: ஹிரோசிமா
- Tamil: ஹிரோஷிமா
- Tatar: Xirosima
- Tatar: Хиросима
- Telugu: హిరోషిమా
- Thai: จังหวัดฮิโระชิมะ
- Thai: ฮิโรชิมะ
- Thai: ฮิโรชิมา
- Tosk Albanian: Hiroshima
- Tumbuka: Hiroshima
- Turkish: Hiroshima
- Turkish: Hirosima
- Turkish: Hiroşima
- Twi: Hiroshima
- Ukrainian: Гірошіма
- Ukrainian: Хіросіма
- Ukrainian: Хірошіма
- Urdu: ہیروشیما
- Uzbek: Hiroshima
- Uzbek: Xirosima
- Venetian: Hiroshima
- Veps: Hirošima
- Vietnamese: Hiroshima
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Hiroshima
- Waray (Philippines): Hiroshima
- Welsh: Hiroshima
- Western Frisian: Hiroshima
- Western Panjabi: ہیروشیما
- Wu Chinese: 广岛市
- Yakut: Хиросима
- Yiddish: היראשימא
- Yoruba: Hiroshima
- Yue Chinese: 廣島市
- Zeeuws: Hiroshima
- Hírosíma
Other Places Named Hiroshima
Localities in the Area
- NakajimachoNeighbourhood
- Otemachi 2-chomeNeighbourhood
- DohashichoNeighbourhood
- Otemachi 3-chomeNeighbourhood
- Otemachi 1-chomeNeighbourhood
Popular Destinations in Hiroshima
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Hiroshima. Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 3.0.