Nagoya (jpn)

Nagoya

Nagoya ranks 193rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Empire of Japan, Nuremberg, and Abidjan. Memorable people born in Nagoya include Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Akira Toriyama. Memorable people who died in Nagoya include Shoichi Sakata, Isamu Akasaki, and Wang Jingwei. Nagoya has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many physicists, and politicians. Nagoya is located in Japan.

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3 million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11 million. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and most populous city of Aichi Prefecture, with the Port of Nagoya being Japan's largest seaport. Read more on Wikipedia