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'''Hiroshima prefecture''' (広島県 ''Hiroshima-ken'') is an area of [[Japan]] located in the [[Chugoku]] region of [[Honshu]] island, within the southerly Sanyo area. Its population was 2,875,000 in 2006.<ref>''Japan Statistical Yearbook'': '[http://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/zuhyou/y0203000.xls Population by Prefecture 1920-2006]'. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. .xls document.</ref> | '''Hiroshima prefecture''' (広島県 ''Hiroshima-ken'') is an area of [[Japan]] located in the [[Chugoku]] region of [[Honshu]] island, within the southerly Sanyo area. Its population was 2,875,000 in 2006.<ref>''Japan Statistical Yearbook'': '[http://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/zuhyou/y0203000.xls Population by Prefecture 1920-2006]'. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. .xls document.</ref> | ||
Hiroshima prefecture shares its name with its own capital city, [[Hiroshima]] (広島市 ''Hiroshima-shi''), which is widely known as the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on 6th August 1945; approximately 140,000 people were killed by the explosion and its immediate [[radiation|radioactive]] effects.<ref>''Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum'': '[http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/kids/KPSH_E/hiroshima_e/sadako_e/subcontents_e/08higai_1_e.html Damage from the Atomic Bombing]'.''</ref><ref>''Japan Times'': '[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071024a1.html 270,000 A-bomb casualties forecast]'. 24th October 2007.</ref> | Hiroshima prefecture shares its name with its own capital city, [[Hiroshima (city)|Hiroshima]] (広島市 ''Hiroshima-shi''), which is widely known as the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on 6th August 1945; approximately 140,000 people were killed by the explosion and its immediate [[radiation|radioactive]] effects.<ref>''Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum'': '[http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/kids/KPSH_E/hiroshima_e/sadako_e/subcontents_e/08higai_1_e.html Damage from the Atomic Bombing]'.''</ref><ref>''Japan Times'': '[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071024a1.html 270,000 A-bomb casualties forecast]'. 24th October 2007.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 01:52, 29 September 2009
Hiroshima prefecture (広島県 Hiroshima-ken) is an area of Japan located in the Chugoku region of Honshu island, within the southerly Sanyo area. Its population was 2,875,000 in 2006.[1]
Hiroshima prefecture shares its name with its own capital city, Hiroshima (広島市 Hiroshima-shi), which is widely known as the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, on 6th August 1945; approximately 140,000 people were killed by the explosion and its immediate radioactive effects.[2][3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Japan Statistical Yearbook: 'Population by Prefecture 1920-2006'. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. .xls document.
- ↑ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: 'Damage from the Atomic Bombing'.
- ↑ Japan Times: '270,000 A-bomb casualties forecast'. 24th October 2007.