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Nagasaki

/ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/ · name

Meaning

  1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
  2. A prefecture of Japan.
  3. The atomic bombing of said city.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

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