Shiga
Shiga Prefecture is in Kansai region of Japan. See also Biwako Visitors Bureau for tourism information in English.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Omihachiman
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Maibara
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Mount Hiei
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Ryuo
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Shiga
Latitude of centre
35.2472° or 35° 14' 50" northLongitude of centre
136.1094° or 136° 6' 34" eastPopulation
1,400,000Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 541403056OpenStreetMap Feature
place=provinceGeoNames ID
1852553Wikidata ID
Q131358Shiga Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Prefektur Shiga
- Afrikaans: Shiga-prefektuur
- Afrikaans: Shiga Prefektuur
- Arabic: Shiga
- Arabic: شيغا
- Arabic: محافظة شيغا
- Armenian: Սիգա (պրեֆեկտուրա)
- Armenian: Սիգա
- Asturian: Shiga (Xapón)
- Asturian: Shiga (prefeutura)
- Asturian: Shiga
- Asturian: prefeutura de Shiga
- Azerbaijani: Şiqa
- Azerbaijani: Şiqa prefekturası
- Balinese: Préféktur Shiga
- Bashkir: Сига
- Basque: Shiga
- Belarusian: Сіга
- Belarusian: прэфектура Сіга
- Bengali: শিগা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল
- Bulgarian: Шига
- Burmese: ရှိဂါ့စီရင်စု
- Catalan: Prefectura de Shiga
- Catalan: prefectura de Shiga
- Cebuano: Shiga-ken
- Central Kurdish: شیگا
- Chechen: Сига (префектура)
- Chechen: Сига
- Chinese: Siga-koān
- Chinese: 滋賀
- Chinese: 滋賀県/滋賀縣
- Chinese: 滋賀縣
- Chinese: 滋贺县
- Croatian: Shiga
- Czech: Prefektura Šiga
- Czech: prefektura Šiga
- Danish: Shiga-præfekturet
- Dutch: Shiga
- English: Shiga Prefecture
- Esperanto: Gubernio Ŝiga
- Esperanto: prefektejo Ŝiga
- Esperanto: prefektujo Ŝiga
- Esperanto: Ŝiga
- Estonian: Shiga prefektuur
- Finnish: Shiga
- Finnish: Shigan prefektuuri
- French: Préfecture de Shiga
- French: Shiga
- French: préfecture de Shiga
- Galician: Prefectura de Shiga
- Georgian: სიგის პრეფექტურა
- German: JP-25
- German: Präfektur Shiga
- German: Shiga
- Greek: Σίγκα
- Gujarati: શિગા પ્રીફેકચર
- Hakka Chinese: Tsṳ̂-fo-yen
- Hausa: Shiga-yen
- Hebrew: שיגה
- Hindi: शिगा प्रीफेक्चर
- Hungarian: Siga prefektúra
- Iloko: Shiga
- Indonesian: Prefektur Shiga
- Irish: Maoracht Shiga
- Italian: Shiga
- Italian: prefettura di Shiga
- Japanese: Shiga-ken
- Japanese: しが
- Japanese: しがけん
- Japanese: シガ
- Japanese: シガケン
- Japanese: 湖国
- Japanese: 滋賀
- Japanese: 滋賀県
- Javanese: Prefektur Shiga
- Javanese: Préfèktur Shiga
- Kannada: ಶಿಗಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್
- Korean: 시가 현
- Korean: 시가현
- Lao: Prepektura ti Shiga
- Latin: Shigaënsis
- Latin: Siga
- Latvian: Sigas prefektūra
- Latvian: Šigas prefektūra
- Literary Chinese: 滋賀縣
- Lithuanian: Shiga prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Šiga
- Lithuanian: Šiga prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Šigos prefektūra
- Macedonian: Шига
- Malay: Shiga
- Malay: Wilayah Shiga
- Manipuri: ꯁꯤꯒꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Marathi: शिगा
- Marathi: शिगा प्रांत
- Min Dong Chinese: Shiga-gâing
- Min Nan Chinese: Shiga-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Siga-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Siga-kōan
- Min Nan Chinese: Siga Koān
- Mongolian: Шига
- Mongolian: ꯁꯤꯒꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Northern Frisian: Shiga (Prefektüür)
- Northern Frisian: Shiga
- Northern Sami: Shiga prefektuvra
- Norwegian: Shiga
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shiga prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Shiga prefektur
- Ossetian: Сигæ
- Persian: استان شیگا
- Polish: Prefektura Shiga
- Polish: Shiga
- Portuguese: Shiga
- Romanian: Prefectura Shiga
- Romanian: Shiga
- Russian: Сига
- Russian: Шига
- Scots: Shiga Prefectur
- Serbian: Prefektura Šiga
- Serbian: Префектура Шига
- Serbian: Шига
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Shiga
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Šiga
- Serbo-Croatian: Shiga
- Serbo-Croatian: Šiga
- Sinhala: ශිගා ප්රාන්තය
- Slovak: Šiga
- Slovenian: Prefektura Šiga
- South Azerbaijani: شیقا اوستانی
- Spanish: Prefectura de Shiga
- Spanish: Shiga
- Spanish: Shiga Japon
- Spanish: Shiga Japón
- Sundanese: Préféktur Shiga
- Sundanese: Shiga Prefecture
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Shiga
- Swedish: Shiga
- Swedish: Shiga prefektur
- Tagalog: Prefecture of Shiga
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Shiga
- Tagalog: Prepekturang Shiga
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Syiga
- Tagalog: Prepekturang Syiga
- Tagalog: Shiga Prefecture
- Tajik: Prefekturai Siga
- Tajik: Префектураи Сига
- Tajik: Префектураи Шига
- Tamil: ஷிகா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே
- Tatar: Сига (префектура)
- Tatar: Сига
- Telugu: షిగా ప్రిఫెక్చర్
- Thai: จังหวัดชิงะ
- Turkish: Shiga
- Turkish: Shiga prefektörlüğü
- Ukrainian: Префектура Сіга
- Ukrainian: Префектура Сіґа
- Ukrainian: Префектура Шіґа
- Ukrainian: Сіґа
- Ukrainian: Шіґа
- Urdu: شیگا پریفیکچر
- Vietnamese: Shiga
- Vietnamese: Tư Hạ Huyện
- Vietnamese: Tỉnh Shiga
- Waray (Philippines): Shiga
- Waray (Philippines): Shiga Prefecture
- Welsh: Shiga
- Western Panjabi: ضلع شیگا
- Wu Chinese: 滋贺县
- Yue Chinese: 滋賀
- Yue Chinese: 滋賀縣
- Yue Chinese: 滋贺县
- Prefettura di Shiga
- Shiga Ken
- پارێزگای شیگا
- ෂිගා ප්රාන්තය
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