Wakasa Bay
Bay of Japan area
Facts
16 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- bay
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 35.750°, 135.667°[18]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Fukui Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture[2][3]
Population and size
- Area
- 2657.0
More facts +11
- Located in
- Fukui Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture
- Part of
- Sea of Japan[8]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 35.750°, 135.667°
- Described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19]
- Has part(s)
- Tsuruga Bay, Sekumi Bay, Obama Bay, Yashiro Bay, Uchiura Bay, Maizuru Bay, Miyazu Bay[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
- Has parts
- Tsuruga Bay, Sekumi Bay, Obama Bay, Yashiro Bay, Uchiura Bay, Maizuru Bay, Miyazu Bay
- Inflows
- Kita River, Yura River[6][7]
- Located in protected area
- Echizen-Kaga Kaigan Quasi-National Park, Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park, Tango-Amanohashidate-Ōeyama Quasi-National Park
- Name in kana
- わかさわん
- Named after
- Wakasa Province[5]
- Terminus
- Cape Echizen, Cape Kyōgamisaki[16][17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Wakasa Bay
de Wakasa-Bucht
fr baie de Wakasa
it Baia di Wakasa
ja 若狭湾
ko 와카사만
pl Wakasa (zatoka)
ru Ваказа
ru Вакаса
ru Вакаса-ван
ru Вакаса (залив)
th อ่าววากาซะ
vi Vịnh Wakasa
zh 若狹灣
🔖 Identifiers · 10
- VIAF cluster ID
- 252685111
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85144846
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Wakasa bay beach.jpg ↗
- BabelNet ID
- 08035281n
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -247817
- GeoNames ID
- 1848946
- Google Knowledge Graph ID
- /g/1239csrs
- J9U entity ID
- 987007548770905171
- NDL Authority ID
- 00636471
- Topic's main category
- Category:Wakasa Bay
🔗 Connections
← Located in or next to body of water 16
Located in protected area 3
Has part(s) 2
Has these parts 2
Inflows 2
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Country 1
Described by source 1
Instance of 1
Named after 1
Named after 1
Part of 1
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
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Summary
Wakasa Bay is a bay[1].
Body
Geography
Located in include Fukui Prefecture[2], a prefecture of Japan[20], in Japan[21], founded in 1881[22] and Kyoto Prefecture[3], a prefecture of Japan[23], in Japan[24], founded in 1868[25].
Physical Characteristics
Wakasa Bay's area is recorded as 2657 km²[26].
Cultural Significance
Things named for Wakasa Bay include Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park[27], a quasi-national park of Japan[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1955[30].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Wakasa Wan Quasi-National Park[27], a quasi-national park of Japan[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1955[30].