is one of the eight wards of the city of

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...

, located in the south of former . Asa District consisted of , , , . After being merged with Hiroshima in 1973, this ward was named Asaminami-ku. The largest station of Astramline, a new traffic system, is in Asaminami-ku. This system brought population inflow. As of January 1, 2018, the ward has an estimated

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of 245,475, with 101,941

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s and a

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of 2094 persons per km². The total area is 117.24 km².

Transportation

JR-Kabe line

Astram line

Expressway

* San'yō Expressway ** ** ** *

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** * Hiroshima Expressway **

Industry

Hiroshima Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in

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closed its doors in 2003.

Education

* Hiroshima City University * Hiroshima University of Economics *

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* Yasuda Women's University

Agriculture

Former , now a part of the ward, has been a major production area for ' since

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. ''Hiroshimana'' is a variety of Chinese cabbage and is the main material used for making ''Hiroshimanazuke'' (literally "pickled ''Hiroshimana''").