Toyama is the capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, and a core city of the Chubu region, on the coast of the Sea of Japan in central Honshu, about 200 kilometres north of Nagoya. As of June 2019 it had approximately 415,844 residents in 176,643 households across 1,241.77 square kilometres. The national government has designated it an environmental model city for its greenhouse gas reduction efforts. Toyama was historically known for medicine and washi paper production in the Edo period, grew into a centre of heavy industry in the Meiji era, and was almost completely destroyed by firebombing on August 1 and 2, 1945.
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1. GeoNames: Toyama
GeoNames geonameid 1849876 (Toyama), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. 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, 137.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.75, 137.25
36.75 137.25 Cfa
3. GeoNames: Toyama - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1849876, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 1849876, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
36.7 137.21667 P PPLA JP 42 1849870 415844 11 Asia/Tokyo
Tonami, Toyama (Wikipedia)
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