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Panoramic view of Nagasaki, Japan, showing the city's waterfront, densely packed buildings, and surrounding green hills under a blue sky. Nagasaki prefecture, Japan Sasebo
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Panoramic view of Nagasaki, Japan, showing the city's waterfront, densely packed buildings, and surrounding green hills under a blue sky.
Nagasaki, Japan Portion of the harbour at Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.

Nagasaki

prefecture, Japan
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Nagasaki, ken (prefecture), northwestern Kyushu, Japan, facing the East China Sea. It includes the islands of Tsushima, Iki, and Hirado and those of the Gotō archipelago. The city of Nagasaki is the prefectural capital. The prefecture has an irregular shape, with the rounded Shimabara Peninsula and, farther to the west, the narrow triangular Nagasaki Peninsula—the two delineating Tachibana Bay—in the southeast. Shimabara Peninsula is washed by the Ariake Sea (north and northeast) and Shimabara Bay...

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