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Hyōgo Prefecture (兵庫県 Hyōgo-ken) is a prefecture of Japan (and later West Japan) located in the Kansai region on Honshu island. The capital is Kobe. The Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,024,681 people.

The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.

History[]

Present-day Hyōgo Prefecture includes the former provinces of Harima, Tajima, Awaji, and parts of Tamba and Settsu.

In 1180, near the end of the Heian Period, Emperor Antoku, Taira no Kiyomori, and the Imperial court moved briefly to Fukuhara, in what is now the city of Kobe. There the capital remained for five months.

Himeji Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in the city of Himeji.

Southern Hyōgo Prefecture was severely devastated by the magnitude 7.2 Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, which destroyed major parts of Kobe and Awaji, as well as Takarazuka and neighboring Osaka Prefecture, killing nearly 6,500 people.

Economy[]

Hyōgo Prefecture has many heavy industries, metal and medical, and Kobe Port is one of the largest ports in West Japan.

Hyōgo is a part of the Hanshin Industrial Region. There are two research institute of Riken, natural sciences research institute in West Japan, in Kobe and Harima. It has "SPring-8",a synchrotron radiation facility in Harima.


Geography[]

Hyōgo has coastlines on two seas: to the north, the Sea of Japan, to the south, the Seto Inland Sea. The northern portion is sparsely populated, except for the city of Toyooka, and the central highlands are only populated by tiny villages. Most of Hyōgo's population lives on the southern coast, which is part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. Awaji Island is an island that separates the Inland Sea and Osaka Bay, lying between Honshu and Shikoku.

Summertime weather throughout Hyōgo is hot and humid. As for winter conditions in Hyōgo, the north of Hyōgo tends to receive abundant snow, whilst the south receives only the occasional flurry.

Hyōgo borders on Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Tottori Prefecture and Okayama Prefecture.

As of March 31st, 2008, 20% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely the Sanin Kaigan and Setonaikai National Parks; Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park; and Asago Gunzan, Harima Chūbu Kyūryō, Inagawa Keikoku, Izushi-Itoi, Kasagatayama-Sengamine, Kiyomizu-Tōjōko-Tachikui, Onzui-Chikusa, Seiban Kyūryō, Seppiko-Mineyama, Tajima Sangaku, and Taki Renzan Prefectural Natural Parks.

Cities and Towns[]

Cities[]

  • Aioi
  • Akashi
  • Akō
  • Amagasaki
  • Asago

  • Ashiya
  • Awaji
  • Himeji
  • Itami
  • Kakogawa

  • Kasai
  • Katō
  • Kawanishi
  • Kobe
  • Miki

  • Minamiawaji
  • Nishinomiya
  • Nishiwaki
  • Ono
  • Sanda

  • Sasayama
  • Shisō
  • Sumoto
  • Takarazuka
  • Takasago

  • Tamba
  • Tatsuno
  • Toyooka
  • Yabu

Towns[]

  • Akō District
    • Kamigōri
  • Ibo District
    • Taishi
  • Kako District
    • Harima
    • Inami

  • Kanzaki District
    • Fukusaki
    • Ichikawa
    • Kamikawa
  • Kawabe District
    • Inagawa

  • Mikata District
    • Kami
    • Shin'onsen
  • Sayō District
    • Sayō
  • Taka District
    • Taka
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