Shizuoka (静岡市 Shizuoka-shi) is the caipital ceety o Shizuoka Prefectur, Japan, an the prefectur's seicont-mucklemaist ceety in terms o baith population an area. It haes been populatit syne prehistoric times.
Shizuoka 静岡 | |
|---|---|
Designatit ceety | |
| 静岡市 · City of Shizuoka[1] | |
 Tap left: Shizuoka Sengen Shrine; Tap richt: Nihondaira Stadium Middle: Munt Fuji & Shimizu Port frae Nihondaira Upper bottom left Green tea fields; Lawer bottom left Toro ruins; Bottom richt: Tatsumi yagura o Sunpu Castle | |
 Flag | |
 Location of Shizuoka in Shizuoka | |
| Coordinates: 34°59′N 138°23′E | |
| Kintra | Japan |
| Region | Chūbu |
| Prefectur | Shizuoka |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Tanabe Nobuhiro |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1411.85 km2 (545.12 sq mi) |
| Population (Februar 2012) | |
| • Total | 723,317 |
| • Density | 507/km2 (1,310/sq mi) |
| Symbols | |
| • Tree | Flouering Dugwid |
| • Flouer | Hollyhock |
| • Bird | Common Kingfisher |
| Time zone | UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time) |
| City Hall Address | 5-1 Ōtemachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken 420-8602 |
| Website | www |
The ceety's name is made up o twa kanji, 静—shizu, meanin "still" or "calm"; an 岡—oka, meanin "hill(s)".[2] In 1869, Shizuoka Domain wis first creatit oot o the aulder Sunpu Domain, an that name wis retained whan the ceety wis incorporatit in 1885. In 2003, Shizuoka merged wi Shimizu Ceety (nou Shimizu Waird), briefly becoming the mucklemaist ceety bi land area in Japan. In 2005, it became ane o Japan's 19 "designatit ceeties".
Sister an friendship ceeties
Shizuoka haes twin an friendship relationships wi several ceeties.[3][4]
Twin ceeties
Owerseas
Stockton, Californie, Unitit States (syne October 16, 1959)- Omaha, Nebraska, Unitit States (syne Aprile 1, 1965)
- Shelbyville, Indiana, Unitit States (syne November 3, 1989)
Cannes, Fraunce (syne November 5, 1991)
athin Japan
Muroran, Hokkaidō (syne December 24, 1976)- Jōetsu, Niigata (syne October 12, 1995)
Friendship ceeties
Owerseas
Huế, Vietnam (syne Aprile 12, 2005)
Athin Japan
- Saku, Nagano (syne October 12, 1989)
References
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