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| JapaneseName = {{nobold|{{lang|ja|奈良市}}}}
| settlement_type = [[Core cities of Japan|Core city]]
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| image_caption = From top left: [[Mount Wakakusa|Wakakusayama]] Mountain Burning, Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji, [[Yakushi-ji]], [[Tōdai-ji]], [[Kasuga-taisha|Kasuga Shrine]] and a deer in [[Nara Park]]
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| image_map = Nara in Nara Prefecture Ja.svg
| coordinates = {{coord|34|41|N|135|48|E|region:JP|display=inline,title}}
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| website = {{URL|www.city.nara.lg.jp}}
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{{Infobox Chinese
{{nihongo|'''Nara'''|奈良市|Nara-shi}} is a [[city]] in [[Japan]] on the island of [[Honshu]]. It is the [[capital city]] of [[Nara Prefecture]].<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA698#v=onepage&q&f=false "Nara"] in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 698; [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA477#v=onepage&q&f=false "Kansai"] at p. 477.</ref> ▼
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▲{{nihongo|'''Nara'''|奈良市|Nara-shi}} is a [[city]] in [[Japan]] on the island of [[Honshu]]. It is the [[capital city]] of [[Nara Prefecture]].<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA698
It has been [[wikt:recognized|recognized]] as a [[core city]] since 2002.<ref>Jacobs, A.J. [http://www.hindawi.com/journals/usr/2011/692764/ "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s,"] ''Urban Studies Research
==History==
Many of the temples, shrines and ruins in Nara form "[[Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara]]"
* [[Tōdai-ji]]<ref name="jnto"/>
* [[Kōfuku-ji]]<ref name="jnto"/>
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* [[Yakushi-ji]]<ref name="jnto"/>
* [[Tōshōdai-ji]]<ref name="jnto"/>
* [[Heijō Palace]]<ref name="jnto"/>
The [[Kasugayama Primeval Forest|Kasugayama old-groth forest]] is also identified as a world heritage site.<ref name="jnto"/>
On 8 July 2022, former [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] [[Shinzo Abe]] was [[Assassination of Shinzo Abe|fatally shot]] while giving a campaign speech in Nara.
==Geography==
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==Other websites==
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* [http://www.city.nara.lg.jp/www/toppage/0000000000000/APM03000.html Nara City website {{
* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/870 Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara]
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