Nagasaki

() is the caipital an the lairgest ceety o Nagasaki Prefectur on the island o Kyushu in Japan. Nagasaki wis foondit bi the Portuguese in the seicont hauf o the 16t century on the steid o a smaa fishin veelage, formerly pairt o Nishisonogi Destrict. It acame a centre o Portuguese an ither European fowks' influence in the 16t throu 19t centuries, an the Kirks an Christian Steids in Nagasaki hae been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO Warld Heritage Leet. Pairt o Nagasaki wis home tae a major Imperial Japanese Navy base durin the First Sino-Japanese War an Russo-Japanese War. Its name means "long cape".

Durin Warld War II, the atomic bombins o Hiroshima an Nagasaki made Nagasaki the seicont an, tae date, last ceety in the warld tae experience a nuclear attack.

## Geografie an climate
Nagasaki an Nishisonogi Peninsulas are locatit within the ceety leemits. The ceety is surroondit bi the ceeties o Isahaya an Saikai, an the touns o Togitsu an Nagayo in Nishisonogi Destrict.

Nagasaki lies at the heid o a lang bay which forms the best naitural harbor on the island o Kyūshū. The main commercial an residential aurie o the ceety lies on a smaa plain near the end o the bay. Twa rivers dividit bi a muntain spur fairm the twa main valleys in which the ceety lies. The hivily biggit-up aurie o the ceety is confined bi the terrain tae less nor .

Nagasaki haes the teepical humid subtropical climate o Kyūshū an Honshū. Apairt frae Kanazawa an Shizuoka it is the wettest sizeable ceety in Japan an indeed aw o temperate Eurasie, an in the simmer the heat an humidity can be very unpleasant, wi wet-bulb temperaturs whiles reachin . In the winter, houiver, it is drier an sunnier than Gotō tae the wast, an temperaturs are slichtly milder than faur inland in Kyūshū. Syne records began in 1878 the wettest month haes been Julie 1982 wi  includin  in a single day, whilst the driest month haes been September 1967 wi .




## Transportation

The nearest airport is Nagasaki Airport in the nearby ceety o Ōmura. The Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) provides rail transportation on the Nagasaki Main Line, whose terminal is at Nagasaki Station. In addeetion, the Nagasaki Electric Tramway operates five routes in the ceety. The Nagasaki Expressway serves vehicular traffeck wi interchynges at Nagasaki an Susukizuka. In addeetion, sax naitional highways crisscross the ceety: Routes 34, 202, 251, 324, an 499.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns an sister ceeties
The ceety o Nagasaki maintains sister-ceety or friendship relations wi ither ceeties warldwide.

### Within Japan
*Hiroshima

### Ootside Japan
*  Saunt Paul, Minnesota, Unitit States - (1955) Auldest sister ceety in Japan
*  Santos, Brazil (1972)
*  Porto, Portugal (1978)
*   Middelburg, Netherlands (1978)
*  Fuzhou, Cheenae (1980)
*  Vaux-sur-Aure, Fraunce (2005), sister ceety o Sotome syne 1978

## References

## Freemit airtins

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*Nuclear Files.org  Comprehensive information on the history, an poleetical an social implications o the US atomic bombins o Hiroshima an Nagasaki
*Nagasaki Prefectural Tourism Federation 
*Nagasaki Product Promotion Association
*Uisefu information for foreign residents , produced bi Nagasaki Internaitional Association