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Rikuzentakata

city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Place city_of_japan Q270463

Facts

19 properties
Instance of
city of Japan
Inception
1955[12]
Country
Japan[3]
Official website
www.city.rikuzentakata.iwate.jp, www.city.rikuzentakata.iwate.jp[14]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 39.020°, 141.633°
Area
+231.94[29]
Associated electoral district
Iwate 3rd district, Iwate 2nd district[30]
Head of government
Nagato Nakazato, Futoshi Toba[5]
Legal form
ordinary local public entity[26]
Located in or next to body of water
Pacific Ocean[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Iwate Prefecture[2]
Name in kana
りくぜんたかたし[28]
Native label
陸前高田市[27]
Population
23k (18k–23k, n=3)[15][16][17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 18,182 · 19,758 · 23,300 GeoNames 20,565 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Replaces
Takata, Kesen, Hirota, Otomo, Takekoma, Yahagi, Yokota, Yonesaki[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Shares border with
Ofunato, Ichinoseki, Sumita, Kesennuma[6][7][8][9]
Significant event
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami[13]
Social media followers
+4943[31]
Twinned administrative body
Crescent City, Nagoya[10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Rikuzen-Takata en Rikuzentakata en Rikuzentakata City ar ريكوزينتاكاتا ar ريكوزينتاكاتا، إيواته de Rikuzen-Takata el Ρικουζεντακάτα en-gb Rikuzentakata City en-gb Rikuzentakata-shi fa ریکوزنتاکاتا، ایواته fr Rikuzen-Takata hi रिकुजेन्तकाता ja 陸前高田市 ko 리쿠젠타카타시 ru Рикудзентаката ru Рикудзэнтаката th ริกูเซ็นตากาตะ uk Рікудзентаката uk Рікудзен-Таката zh-hans 陆前高田市
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
251758095
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Rikuzentakata City New Municipal Office.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
48792
Corporate Number (Japan)
8000020032107
Dantai code
032107
Facebook username
RikuzentakataCity
Freebase ID
/m/01wfvx
GNS Unique Feature ID
10772841
GeoLOD ID
so44Qt
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
7KUAEv
GeoNames ID
7441817
INaturalist place ID
34025
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Japan Search name ID
陸前高田市
Lex ID
Rikuzentakata
MusicBrainz area ID
64b7687d-53a4-489d-9d1b-fc030eea1951
NDL Authority ID
00377689
OpenCorporates ID
jp/8000020032107
OpenStreetMap relation ID
963788
Topic's main category
Category:Rikuzentakata, Iwate
Who's on First ID
890520185
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJhd9h8GYtgqd8kk7mWdQq
X (Twitter) username
rikutaka_city
Yale LUX ID
place/97ae8e56-b22a-4b7f-bd76-b150a5c8784a

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 8
Sanriku Fukko National Park, Miracle Pine Tree, Otomo Station, Rikuzen-Takata Station, Rikuzen-Yahagi Station, Takekoma Station, Wakinosawa Station, Takata Matsubara
← Shares border with 5
Kesennuma, Ichinoseki, Ofunato, Sumita, Kesen district
Shares border with 4
Kesennuma, Ichinoseki, Ofunato, Sumita
← Terminus location 3
Japan National Route 284, Japan National Route 340, Japan National Route 343
Associated electoral district 2
Iwate 2nd district, Iwate 3rd district
Located in time zone 2
UTC+09:00, Japan Standard Time
People born here 2
Hiroaki Murakami, Naoya Hatakeyama
Twinned administrative body 2
Nagoya, Crescent City
← Twinned administrative body 2
Nagoya, Crescent City
Country 1
Japan
Instance of 1
city of Japan
Located in or next to body of water 1
Pacific Ocean
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Iwate Prefecture
Named after 1
22745 Rikuzentakata
Owned entities 1
Miracle Pine Tree
Significant event 1
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Topic's main category 1
Category:Rikuzentakata, Iwate
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Rikuzentakata, Iwate
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Iwate Prefecture
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Summary

Rikuzentakata is a city of Japan[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Rikuzentakata include 22745 Rikuzentakata[32], an asteroid[33].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Rikuzentakata include 22745 Rikuzentakata[32], an asteroid[33].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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  14. [15] ↑ . www3.pref.iwate.jp. www3.pref.iwate.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  28. [29] ↑ . gsi.go.jp. gsi.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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