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Zama

city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Place city_of_japan Q145333

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
city of Japan, big city[4]
Inception
September 1, 1948, November 1, 1971[12][13]
Official website
www.city.zama.kanagawa.jp, www.city.zama.kanagawa.jp[15]
Native label
座間市[21]
Official name
座間町, 座間市[19]

Location

Country
Japan[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.489°, 139.408°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kanagawa Prefecture, Koza district[2]
Shares border with
Sagamihara, Yamato, Atsugi, Ebina[5][6][7][8]

Population and size

Area
+17.57[24]
Population
129k (129k–131k, n=3)[16][17][18]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 130,753 · 128,737 · 129,436 GeoNames 132,325 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +8
Associated electoral district
Kanagawa 13th district, Kanagawa 16th district, Kanagawa 20th district[26]
Coextensive with
Zama[25]
Different from
Zama City[23]
Legal form
ordinary local public entity[20]
Legislative body
座間市議会[11]
Name in kana
ざまし[22]
Separated from
Sagamihara[14]
Twinned administrative body
Daisen, Sukagawa[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zama ar زاما، كاناغاوا el Ζάμα fa زاما، کاناگاوا hi ज़ामा ja 座間市 ja 座間町 ko 자마시 pt Zama (Kanagawa) ro Zama, Kanagawa ru Дзама th ซามะ tr Zama, Kanagawa uk Дзама uk Дзама (Канаґава) zh-hans 座间市
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
251443074
Library of Congress authority ID
n80089892
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Zama City Hall, (KANAGAWA Pref. Japan).jpg ↗
Corporate Number (Japan)
3000020142166
Dantai code
142166
Freebase ID
/m/02b2c0
GNS Unique Feature ID
-249056
GeoLOD ID
6NSNtn
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
uF8C1A, a8ZFHY
GeoNames ID
1848004
INaturalist place ID
34125
Instagram username
zamarin1103_official
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Japan Search name ID
座間市
LINE official account ID
zama_city
MusicBrainz area ID
95af2ed4-964c-4b34-806d-1432b3dd13ee
NDL Authority ID
00309636
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541944805171
OpenCorporates ID
jp/3000020142166
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2689430
Topic's main category
Category:Zama, Kanagawa
UN/LOCODE
JPZAM
Who's on First ID
890520907
Yale LUX ID
place/195235d6-2bdf-49a6-8ce1-149d3ec4c5f6

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🔗 Connections
People born here 15
Shinobu Ono, Sho Sasaki, Takahiro Shiraishi, Erina Mano, Naoya Inoue, Ami Suzuki, Sakura Oda, Frank Spotnitz +7 more
Contained subdivisions 4
Iriya Station, Sōbudai-mae Station, Zama Station, United States Army Japan
Shares border with 4
Sagamihara, Atsugi, Yamato, Ebina
← Shares border with 4
Sagamihara, Atsugi, Yamato, Ebina
Associated electoral district 2
Kanagawa 13th district, Kanagawa 16th district
Instance of 2
city of Japan, big city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Kanagawa Prefecture, Koza district
People who died here 2
Takao Saito, Yūtokutaishi Akiyama
Twinned administrative body 2
Daisen, Sukagawa
← Twinned administrative body 2
Daisen, Sukagawa
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Zama, Kanagawa
Country 1
Japan
Located in time zone 1
UTC+09:00
Separated from 1
Sagamihara
Topic's main category 1
Category:Zama, Kanagawa
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Zama, Kanagawa
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Zama, Kanagawa
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kanagawa Prefecture
← Location of formation 1
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Summary

Zama is a city of Japan[1].

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Japan Shinobu Ono Sho Sasaki

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . pref.kanagawa.jp. Retrieved . pref.kanagawa.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . gsi.go.jp. gsi.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Associated electoral district → Kanagawa 13th district, Kanagawa 16th district, Kanagawa 20th district
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Zama, Kanagawa
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kanagawa Prefecture, Koza district
    Official website → http://www.city.zama.kanagawa.jp/, https://www.city.zama.kanagawa.jp/
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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