Nara
Nara is an ancient capital city in Nara Prefecture, Kansai region of Japan. Overshadowed by its more famous neighbor Kyoto, Nara is omitted from many a time-pressed tourist's itinerary.Photo: DinkY2K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ans jpn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Degueulasse, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Heijō Palace
Photo: tamago-moffle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heijō Palace was the imperial residence in the Japanese capital city Heijō-kyō, during most of the Nara period.
Yakushiji Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Yakushi-ji is one of the most famous imperial and ancient Buddhist temples in Japan, and was once one of the Seven Great Temples of Nanto, located in Nara.
Koofukuji
Buddhist temple
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Kōfuku-ji is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples in the city of Nara, Japan.
Nara
Latitude
34.6845° or 34° 41' 4" northLongitude
135.8048° or 135° 48' 17" eastPopulation
365,000Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP QNZOpen Location Code
8Q6QMRM3+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1922043513OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1855612Wikidata ID
Q169134Nara Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Nara, Nara
- Afrikaans: Nara
- Arabic: Nara
- Arabic: نارا
- Arabic: نارا، نارا
- Armenian: Նարա
- Asturian: Nara
- Azerbaijani: Nara
- Balinese: Nara
- Bashkir: Нара (ҡала)
- Bashkir: Нара
- Basque: Nara
- Belarusian: Нара
- Bengali: নারা
- Bulgarian: Нара
- Catalan: Nara
- Cebuano: Nara-shi (distrito)
- Cebuano: Nara-shi
- Chechen: Нара (гӀала)
- Chechen: Нара
- Chinese: Nara-chhī
- Chinese: 奈良
- Chinese: 奈良市
- Croatian: Nara
- Czech: Nara
- Danish: Nara
- Dutch: Nara
- Egyptian Arabic: نارا
- Esperanto: Nara
- Estonian: Nara
- Faroese: Nara
- Finnish: Nara
- French: Nanto
- French: Nara
- Galician: Nara
- Georgian: ნარა
- German: Nara
- Greek: Νάρα
- Gujarati: નારા
- Hakka Chinese: Nai-liòng-sṳ
- Hausa: Nai-liòng-sṳ
- Hebrew: נארה
- Hindi: नारा
- Hungarian: Nara
- Indonesian: Nara
- Irish: Nara
- Italian: Nara
- Japanese: Nara-shi
- Japanese: ならし
- Japanese: 南都
- Japanese: 奈良
- Japanese: 奈良市
- Japanese: 寧楽
- Japanese: 平城
- Japanese: 那羅
- Kalaallisut: Nara
- Kannada: ನಾರಾ
- Kirghiz: Нара
- Korean: 나라 시
- Korean: 나라시
- Korean: 나라 현 나라 시
- Korean: 나라현 나라시
- Korean: 내량시
- Korean: 내량현 내량시
- Korean: 헤이조코
- Latin: Nara
- Latvian: Nara
- Literary Chinese: 奈良市
- Lithuanian: Nara
- Macedo-Romanian: Nara
- Macedonian: Нара
- Madurese: Nara, Nara
- Malay: Nara, Nara
- Malay: Nara
- Malay: نارا
- Maltese: Nara
- Marathi: नारा
- Mazanderani: نارا
- Min Nan Chinese: Nara-chhī
- Minangkabau: Nara, Nara
- Mongolian: Нара
- Norwegian: Nara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nara
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nara
- Occitan (post 1500): Nara
- Persian: نارا
- Polish: Nara
- Portuguese: Nara
- Romanian: Nara
- Russian: Нара, Нара
- Russian: Нара
- Russian: Нара Нара
- Sardinian: Nara
- Scots: Nara
- Serbian: Nara
- Serbian: Нара
- Serbian: 奈良市
- Serbo-Croatian: Nara, Nara
- Serbo-Croatian: Nara
- Silesian: Nara (mjasto we Japůńiji)
- Silesian: Nara
- Sinhala: නරා
- Slovak: Nara
- Slovenian: Nara
- South Azerbaijani: نارا
- Spanish: Nara
- Spanish: Nara Nara
- Swahili: Nara
- Swedish: Nara, Nara
- Swedish: Nara
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Nara
- Tagalog: Nara-shi
- Tagalog: Nara
- Tajik: Nara
- Tajik: Нара
- Tamil: நாரா
- Tatar: Нара
- Telugu: నారా
- Thai: นาระ
- Turkish: Nara
- Ukrainian: Нара
- Urdu: نارا، نارا
- Uzbek: Nara
- Venetian: Nara
- Vietnamese: Di tích Nara cổ
- Vietnamese: Nara
- Vietnamese: Nại Lương thị
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Nara
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Nại Lương
- Waray (Philippines): Nara
- Welsh: Nara
- Wu Chinese: 奈良市
- Yue Chinese: 奈良市
- නාරා, නාරා
Other Places Named Nara
In the Area
Nara is situated close to the neighbourhoods Nijoji-minami 1-chome and Sanjooji 1-chome.
- Omiyacho 7-chomeNeighbourhood
- KitashinmachiNeighbourhood
- Omiyacho 4-chomeNeighbourhood
- Omiyacho 6-chomeNeighbourhood
- Shibatsujicho 4-chomeNeighbourhood
- Nijoji-minami 2-chomeNeighbourhood
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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 Nara. Photo: Henry, CC BY 2.0.