Hiroshima (jpn)

Hiroshima

Hiroshima ranks 176th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Buffalo, New York, Bristol, and Auckland. Memorable people born in Hiroshima include Sadako Sasaki, Issey Miyake, and Arawa Kimura. Memorable people who died in Hiroshima include Naoemon Shimizu, Ichirō Nagai, and Sadako Sasaki. Hiroshima has been the birth place of many soccer players, and wrestlers and the death place of many soccer players, and actors. Hiroshima is located in Japan.

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia