岡山 (Okayama)

岡山 (Okayama) is the center of a metropolitan area with a population of 1.647 million¹ located north of the Seto Inland Sea in western Honshū Island, in 岡山 (Okayama) Prefecture, ⽇夲 (Nippon).² The city was nearly destroyed by American bombing during World War II.³ The tallest building as of early 2014 is the 32 story Grace Tower (2004).⁴

External references

Okayama castle

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. 2005 census from the Statistics Bureau of Japan, cited in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Japan_by_population, accessed 3/25/2014. In 2010 there was over 700 thousand residents in the city proper according to the side banner of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okayama, accessed 7/2/2014.
2. In less formal contexts the pronunciation shifts to the more modern: Nihon. In English: Japan.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okayama, accessed 7/2/2014.
4. Emporis.com, accessed 7/2/2014.