Editing Nagoya (section)

== Geography and administrative divisions ==
[[File:Nagoya by Sentinel-2, 2020-10-27.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Satellite picture of Nagoya]]

===Geography===
Nagoya lies north of [[Ise Bay]] on the [[Nōbi Plain]]. The city was built on low-level [[plateau]]s to ward off floodwaters. The plain is one of the nation's most fertile areas. The [[Kiso River]] flows to the west along the city border, and the [[Shōnai River]] comes from the northeast and turns south towards the bay at Nishi Ward. The human-made [[Hori River (Nagoya)|Hori River]] was constructed as a canal in 1610. It flows from north to south, as part of the Shōnai River system. The rivers allowed for trade with the hinterland. The Tempaku River feeds from a number of smaller river in the east, flows briefly south at Nonami and then west at Ōdaka into the bay.

The city's location and its position in the [[Chūbu region|centre of Japan]] allowed it to develop economically and politically.
<gallery mode="packed" style="text-align: center;" caption="Gallery" heights="130px" perrow="3">
File:Nobi_Plain_from_Mount_Miroku.JPG|Nagoya and Nobi Plain seen from Mirokuzan ([[Kasugai, Aichi|Kasugai city]])
File:Nobi Plain and Nagoya from Mount Sanpo 2008-9-24.jpg|View of the Nōbi Plain, [[Kiso Three Rivers]] and Nagoya from Mount Sanpo and Mount Yōrō
File:Aerial photographs of Nagoya Night view.jpg|Aerial photographs of Nagoya
File:Nagoya_Port_Aichi_pref_Japan01s8.jpg|Nagoya Port in 2013
</gallery>

===Climate===
Nagoya has a [[humid subtropical climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification]]: ''Cfa'') with hot, humid summers and cool winters. The summer is noticeably wetter than the winter, although rain falls throughout the year.
{{Weather box
|width= auto
|collapsed = Y
|single line = Y
|metric first = Y
|location = Nagoya (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1890–present)
|Jan record high C = 21.0
|Feb record high C = 23.5
|Mar record high C = 25.8
|Apr record high C = 30.5
|May record high C = 34.8
|Jun record high C = 37.9
|Jul record high C = 39.6
|Aug record high C = 40.3
|Sep record high C = 38.0
|Oct record high C = 32.7
|Nov record high C = 27.2
|Dec record high C = 22.6
|Jan record low C = -10.3
|Feb record low C = -9.5
|Mar record low C = -6.8
|Apr record low C = -2.1
|May record low C = 2.8
|Jun record low C = 8.2
|Jul record low C = 14.0
|Aug record low C = 14.4
|Sep record low C = 9.5
|Oct record low C = 1.5
|Nov record low C = -2.7
|Dec record low C = -7.2
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 50.8
|Feb precipitation mm = 64.7
|Mar precipitation mm = 116.2
|Apr precipitation mm = 127.5
|May precipitation mm = 150.3
|Jun precipitation mm = 186.5
|Jul precipitation mm = 211.4
|Aug precipitation mm = 139.5
|Sep precipitation mm = 231.6
|Oct precipitation mm = 164.7
|Nov precipitation mm = 79.1
|Dec precipitation mm = 56.6
|year precipitation mm = 1578.9
|Jan mean C = 4.8
|Feb mean C = 5.5
|Mar mean C = 9.2
|Apr mean C = 14.6
|May mean C = 19.4
|Jun mean C = 23.0
|Jul mean C = 26.9
|Aug mean C = 28.2
|Sep mean C = 24.5
|Oct mean C = 18.6
|Nov mean C = 12.6
|Dec mean C = 7.2
|year mean C = 16.2
|Jan high C = 9.3
|Feb high C = 10.5
|Mar high C = 14.5
|Apr high C = 20.1
|May high C = 24.6
|Jun high C = 27.6
|Jul high C = 31.4
|Aug high C = 33.2
|Sep high C = 29.1
|Oct high C = 23.3
|Nov high C = 17.3
|Dec high C = 11.7
|year high C = 21.1
|Jan low C = 1.1
|Feb low C = 1.4
|Mar low C = 4.6
|Apr low C = 9.7
|May low C = 14.9
|Jun low C = 19.4
|Jul low C = 23.5
|Aug low C = 24.7
|Sep low C = 21.0
|Oct low C = 14.8
|Nov low C = 8.6
|Dec low C = 3.4
|year low C = 12.3
|Jan humidity = 64
|Feb humidity = 60
|Mar humidity = 58
|Apr humidity = 59
|May humidity = 64
|Jun humidity = 71
|Jul humidity = 73
|Aug humidity = 69
|Sep humidity = 70
|Oct humidity = 68
|Nov humidity = 66
|Dec humidity = 66
|year humidity = 66
|Jan sun = 174.5
|Feb sun = 175.5
|Mar sun = 199.7
|Apr sun = 200.2
|May sun = 205.5
|Jun sun = 151.8
|Jul sun = 166.0
|Aug sun = 201.3
|Sep sun = 159.6
|Oct sun = 168.9
|Nov sun = 167.1
|Dec sun = 170.3
|year sun = 2141.0
|Jan snow cm = 4
|Feb snow cm = 5
|Mar snow cm = 0
|Apr snow cm = 0
|May snow cm = 0
|Jun snow cm = 0
|Jul snow cm = 0
|Aug snow cm = 0
|Sep snow cm = 0
|Oct snow cm = 0
|Nov snow cm = 0
|Dec snow cm = 3
|year snow cm = 12
|unit precipitation days = 0.5 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 6.3
|Feb precipitation days = 7.2
|Mar precipitation days = 9.8
|Apr precipitation days = 10.4
|May precipitation days = 10.7
|Jun precipitation days = 12.7
|Jul precipitation days = 13.0
|Aug precipitation days = 9.4
|Sep precipitation days = 11.9
|Oct precipitation days = 10.0
|Nov precipitation days = 7.0
|Dec precipitation days = 7.5
|year precipitation days = 115.9
| Jan uv  =2
| Feb uv  =4
| Mar uv  =6
| Apr uv  =7
| May uv  =9
| Jun uv  =10
| Jul uv  =10
| Aug uv  =10
| Sep uv  =8
| Oct uv  =6
| Nov uv  =3
| Dec uv  =2
|source 1 = Japan Meteorological Agency<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/etrn/index.php?prec_no=51&block_no=47636&year=&month=12&day=&view=h0
|script-title=ja:気象庁 / 平年値（年・月ごとの値） 
| publisher = [[Japan Meteorological Agency]]
| access-date = May 19, 2021}}</ref>
}}

===Area===
====Wards====
[[File:Nagoya_City_Hall_2011-10-28.jpg|thumb|[[Nagoya City Hall]]]]

Nagoya has 16 [[Wards of Japan|wards]].

{| class="wikitable"  style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:810px;"
|-
! colspan="8" | Wards of Nagoya
|-
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | Place Name
!
!
!
!Map of Nagoya 
|-
! style="width: 190px;" |''[[Romanization of Japanese|Rōmaji]]''
! style="width: 190px;" |''[[Kanji]]''
!''Population''
!''Land area in km<sup>2</sup>''
!''Pop. density per km<sup>2</sup>''
!
|-
| style="text-align: center;" "width: 20px;" | 1
|[[Atsuta-ku, Nagoya|Atsuta-ku]]
|熱田区
|66,318
|8.20
|8,088
| rowspan="16" |[[File:Nagoya_Wards.png|center|border|400px|A map of Nagoya's Wards]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 2
|[[Chikusa-ku, Nagoya|Chikusa-ku]]
| 千種区
|165,863
|18.18
|9,123
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 3
|[[Higashi-ku, Nagoya|Higashi-ku]]
| 東区
|82,939
|7.71
|10,757
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 4
|[[Kita-ku, Nagoya|Kita-ku]]
| 北区
|163,555
|17.53
|9,330
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 5
|[[Meitō-ku, Nagoya|Meitō-ku]]
| 名東区
|165,287
|19.45
|8,498
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 6
|[[Midori-ku, Nagoya|Midori-ku]]
| 緑区
|247,475
|37.91
|6,528
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 7
|[[Minami-ku, Nagoya|Minami-ku]]
| 南区
|136,015
|18.46
|7,368
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 8
|[[Minato-ku, Nagoya|Minato-ku]]
| 港区
|143,913
|45.64
|3,153
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 9
|[[Mizuho-ku, Nagoya|Mizuho-ku]]
|瑞穂区
|107,622
|11.22
|9,592
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 10
|[[Moriyama-ku, Nagoya|Moriyama-ku]]
|守山区
|176,298
|34.01
|5,184
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 11
|[[Naka-ku, Nagoya|Naka-ku]] – administrative center
|中区
|90,918
|9.38
|9,693
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 12
|[[Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya|Nakagawa-ku]]
|中川区
|220,782
|32.02
|6,895
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 13
|[[Nakamura-ku, Nagoya|Nakamura-ku]]
|中村区
|135,134
|16.30
|8,290
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 14
|[[Nishi-ku, Nagoya|Nishi-ku]]
|西区
|150,480
|17.93
|8,393
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 15
|[[Shōwa-ku, Nagoya|Shōwa-ku]]
|昭和区
|110,436
|10.94
|10,095
|-
| style="text-align: center;" | 16
|[[Tenpaku-ku]]
|天白区
|164,522
|21.58
|7,624
|}

===Demographics===
{{Historical populations
|title       = Historical population
|type        = Japan
|align       = right
|width       = 
|state       = 
|shading     = 
|percentages = 
|footnote    = 
|1873|125193
|1889|157496
|1920|677452
|1925|842835
|1930|991833
|1935|1182837
|1940|1415117
|1945|971374
|1950|1157263
|1955|1420572
|1960|1697093
|1965|1935430
|1970|2036053
|1975|2079740
|1980|2087902
|1985|2116381
|1990|2154793
|1995|2152184
|2000|2171557
|2005|2215062
|2010|2263907
|2015|2295638
|2020|2330178
}}

[[File:Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area 2015.png|thumb|Nagoya [[Urban Employment Area|metropolitan employment area]] as of 2015]]
One of the earliest [[census]]es, carried out in 1889, counted 157,496 residents. The population reached the 1{{nbsp}}million mark in 1934 and as of December 2010 had an estimated population of 2,259,993 with a [[population density]] of {{convert|6923|PD/km2}}. Also {{as of|2010|12|lc=y}} an estimated 1,019,859 households resided there—a significant increase from 153,370 at the end of the [[Pacific War]] in 1945.<ref name="population and household">{{cite web |url=http://www.city.nagoya.jp/somu/page/0000019808.html |script-title=ja:平成22年12月1日現在の世帯数と人口(全市・区別) |trans-title=Population and Number of Households as of 1 December, Heisei 22 |publisher=Nagoya City |date=20 December 2010 |access-date=7 January 2011 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115145437/http://www.city.nagoya.jp/somu/page/0000019808.html |archive-date=15 January 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The area is {{convert|326.45|km²|2|abbr=out}}. Its [[Chūkyō Metropolitan Area|metropolitan area]] extends into the [[Mie Prefecture|Mie]] and [[Gifu Prefecture|Gifu]] prefectures, with a total population of about 10{{nbsp}}million people, surpassed only by Osaka and Tokyo.

=== Surrounding municipalities ===
* [[Aichi Prefecture]]
** [[Ama, Aichi|Ama]]
** [[Kanie]]
** [[Kasugai, Aichi|Kasugai]]
** [[Kitanagoya]]
** [[Kiyosu]]
** [[Nagakute]]
** [[Nisshin, Aichi|Nisshin]]
** [[Ōbu]]
** [[Ōharu, Aichi|Ōharu]]
** [[Owariasahi]]
** [[Seto, Aichi|Seto]]
** [[Tobishima]]
** [[Tōgō, Aichi|Tōgō]]
** [[Tōkai, Aichi|Tōkai]]
** [[Toyoake]]
** [[Toyoyama]]