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Nagasaki.

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.

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name/ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/UK/ˌnæɡəˈsaːki/Canada, US/ˌnaːɡəˈsaːki/Canada, US
  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 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. The atomic bombing of said city.

  3. A prefecture of Japan.

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Borrowed from Japanese 長崎(ながさき) (Nagasaki).

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