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Key facts
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Kansai
- Prefecture
- Shiga
- Mayor
- Issei Tajima (since May 2025)
- Total
- 196.84 km (76.00 sq mi)
- Density
- 568.78/km (1,473.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00 ( JST )
- City hall address
- 4-2 Motomachi, Hikone-shi, Shiga-ken 522-8501
- Phone number
- 0749-30-6111
- Climate
- Cfa
- Website
- Official website
- Flower
- Iris
- Tree
- Tachibana Orange
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Named after
- Ikutsuhikone
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Shiga Prefecture
- Population
- 112156
- Area
- 196.87
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Body of water
- Lake Biwa
- Capital of
- Hikone Domain
- Shares border with
- Aisho
- Official website
- www.city.hikone.lg.jp/ja
- Image
- Genkyu-en-r.jpg
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- mascot
- Hikonyan
- twinned administrative body
- Takamatsu
- Commons category
- Hikone, Shiga
- inception
- 1937-02-11
- topic's main category
- Category:Hikone, Shiga
- native label
- 彦根市
- name in kana
- ひこねし
- external data available at URL
- www.city.hikone.lg.jp/opendata
- associated electoral district
- Shiga 2nd district
- number of viewers/listeners
- 429037
- postal code
- 522-8501
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Encyclopedic overview
Hikone (彦根市, Hikone-shi) is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2021, the city had an estimated population of 111,958 in 49,066 households and a population density of 570 persons per km². The total area of the city is 196.84 square kilometres (76.00 sq mi).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hikone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.