is one of 9

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Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It has an area of 11.46 km², and a population of 96,072 (2018). This region suffered the largest number of casualties in the

Great Hanshin earthquake The , or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had ...

Demographics

Nearly, Nagata-ku's population is decreasing, but foreigners are increasing. Nagata-ku has the largest Korean and Vietnamese Communities in Kobe.

Education

West Kobe Korean Elementary School ( 西神戸朝鮮初級学校), a North Korean school, is in the ward. The South Korean government maintains the Korean Education Center ( ko, 고베한국교육원, ja, 神戸韓国教育院) in this ward.

References

External links

Official website of Nagata-ku, Kobe
Wards of Kobe {{Hyogo-geo-stub