Nagasaki
/ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/name
High School
1
A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
2
A prefecture of Japan.
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