Shizuoka, Shizuoka

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.city.shizuoka.jp/english/

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

1. "Foreign Languages". The City of Shizuoka. Archived frae the original on 1 Mairch 2012. Retrieved 2 Mairch 2012.
2. Room, Adrian. Placenames of the World, pages 344–345. McFarland, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7864-2248-7
3. International Sister Cities & Friendship Cities ‐ 静岡市 Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Shizuoka website retrieved July 8, 2008
4. Domestic Sister Ceeties & Friendship Ceeties ‐ 静岡市 Archived 2009-03-17 at the Wayback Machine Shizuoka wabsteid retrieved July 8, 2008

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