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Nagasaki

//ˌnæɡəˈsaːki// name

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  1. 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.

    "VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

  2. 2
    A prefecture of Japan.

Etymology

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

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