City
Nagano, Nagano
Eastern Asia
Nagano is the capital and largest city of Nagano Prefecture in the Koshin'etsu subregion of Japan's Chubu region, situated in the Nagano Basin at an elevation of 371.4 meters that makes it the highest of Japan's prefectural capitals. It hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, the third Olympic Games and second Winter Olympics held in Japan, and the event brought major infrastructure investment including the Hokuriku Shinkansen, which cut travel time between Tokyo and Nagano to seventy-nine minutes over 221 kilometers. As of July 2023 the city, designated a core city of Japan, had a population of 365,296 across 834.81 square kilometers.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. GeoNames: Nagano
GeoNames geonameid 1856215 (Nagano), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Nagano, Nagano coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 366.0 ]
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.75, 138.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.75, 138.25
36.75 138.25 Dfb
4. GeoNames: Nagano - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1856215, place matched by name within the country (name and division match)Quote, cities500 record 1856215, place matched by name within the country (name and division match)
36.65 138.18333 P PPLA JP 26 1856209 372760 372 Asia/Tokyo
Nagawa, Nagano (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and countryView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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