nagasaki

Swedish - Turkish

Definition of nagasaki in Swedish Turkish dictionary

nagazaki

English - English

Definition of nagasaki in English English dictionary

A large city in Western Kyushu, in Japan

a city and port in the west of the island of Kyushu, Japan, which was badly damaged in 1945 when a US nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people Hiroshima. City (pop., 2000 prelim.: 423,163), western Kyushu, Japan. It is a seaport and commercial city at the mouth of the Urakami River, where it empties into Nagasaki Harbour. It was the only Japanese port open to foreign trade in 1639-1859. After the Portuguese and English traders were expelled in 1639, only the Dutch, Chinese, and Koreans were allowed into the harbour. In the 19th century it was the winter port of the Russian Asian fleet (until 1903). It became a major shipbuilding centre in the early 20th century. In 1945 the second atomic bomb was dropped there by the U.S. during World War II, killing about 39,000 people and injuring about 25,000 others. The bomb also destroyed about 40% of the city's buildings. Nagasaki has been rebuilt and is a spiritual centre for movements to ban nuclear weapons

{i} seaport in southwest Japan, place where the United States dropped the second atomic bomb in WWII

a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb

Hyphenation

Na·ga·sa·ki

Turkish pronunciation

nägäsäki

Pronunciation

/ˌnägäˈsäkē/ /ˌnɑːɡɑːˈsɑːkiː/