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Hyōgo Prefecture
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prefecture of Japan
Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture located in Japan. It matters because it is an important region in the country, though the specific details of its significance would require additional context to fully explain.
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- Instance of
- prefecture of Japan
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Japan
- Contains
- Sumoto
- Capital
- Kobe
- Population
- 5453392
- Area
- 8400.96
- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time
- Body of water
- Seto Inland Sea
- Head of government
- Motohiko Saitō
- Shares border with
- Tokushima Prefecture
- Highest point
- Mount Hyōno
- Official website
- web.pref.hyogo.lg.jp
- Image
- Kobe Port Tower and Maritime Museum, November 2016.jpg
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- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Hyogo prefecture
- Commons gallery
- 兵庫県
- Commons category
- Hyogo prefecture
- topic's main category
- Category:Hyōgo Prefecture
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Hyogo prefecture
- twinned administrative body
- Hainan
- native label
- 兵庫県
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hyōgo Prefecture
- name in kana
- ひょうごけん
- external data available at URL
- www.hyogokengikai.jp
- official symbol
- Oriental White Stork
- nickname
- 兵庫五国連邦
- topic has template
- Template:Hyogo
- OpenStreetMap zoom level
- 7
- inception
- 1868-07-12
- revised Hepburn romanization
- Hyōgo-ken
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- transliteration or transcription
- Hyogo-ken
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Encyclopedic overview
Himeji Castle in Himeji, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Hyōgo Prefecture (兵庫県, Hyōgo-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [çoꜜː.ɡo, -ŋo, çoː.ɡoꜜ.keɴ, -ŋoꜜ.keɴ]) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 (as of 1 June 2019) and a geographic area of 8,400 square kilometres (3,200 square miles). Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, and Okayama and Tottori prefectures to the west.
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