Hiroshima

Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi) (listen ) is the caipital o Hiroshima Prefectur, an the lairgest ceety in the Chūgoku region o wastren Honshu, the lairgest island o Japan. It is best kent as the first ceety in history tae be destroyed bi a nuclear wappen when the Unitit States Airmy Air Forces (USAAF) droppit an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945, near the end o World War II. Its name 広島 means "Wide Island". Hiroshima gained ceety status on 1 Aprile 1889. On 1 Aprile 1980, Hiroshima became a designatit ceety. Internaitional relations Twin touns an sister ceeties Hiroshima haes sax owerseas sister ceeties: Honolulu, Unitit States (1959) Volgograd, Roushie (1972) Hanover, Germany (1983) Chongqing, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (1986) Daegu, Sooth Korea (1997) Montreal, Canadae (1998) Athin Japan, Hiroshima haes a seemilar relationship wi Nagasaki. Notes