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Takaoka
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Key facts
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Chūbu ( Hokuriku )
- Prefecture
- Toyama
- First official recorded
- 701 AD
- City settled
- April 1, 1889
- Mayor
- Yuzuru Demachi (from July 2025)
- Total
- 209.57 km (80.92 sq mi)
- Density
- 825.91/km (2,139.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+9 ( Japan Standard Time )
- Tree
- Japanese bay tree (Tsumama)
- Flower
- Japanese fawn lily (Katakago)
- Flowering tree
- Cherry blossom (Sakura)
- Phone number
- 0766-20-1111
- Address
- 7-50 Hirokōji, Takaoka-shi, Toyama-ken 933-8601
- Climate
- Cfa
- Website
- www .city .takaoka .toyama .jp
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Toyama Prefecture
- Population
- 176061
- Area
- 209.57
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Body of water
- Toyama Bay
- Shares border with
- Hōdatsu-shimizu-chō
- Official website
- www.city.takaoka.toyama.jp
- Image
- Takaoka montage.JPG
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- Commons category
- Takaoka, Toyama
- twinned administrative body
- Fort Wayne
- topic's main category
- Category:Takaoka, Toyama
- Commons gallery
- 高岡市
- native label
- 高岡市
- name in kana
- たかおかし
- inception
- 1889-04-01
- postal code
- 933-0000
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Takaoka
- external data available at URL
- www.city.takaoka.toyama.jp/joho/shise/opendata/catalog.html
- social media followers
- 9362
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
Downtown Takaoka at night Takaoka (高岡市, Takaoka-shi) is a city in the northwestern portion of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Takaoka has the second largest population after Toyama City, and the city is a center of western Toyama Prefecture (Gosei).
As of 2018, the city had an estimated population of 173,086 in 68,350 households and a population density of 819 persons per km. Its total area was 209.57 square kilometres (80.92 sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Takaoka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.