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Gifu

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Country: Japan

Population:397,714

Time Zone:UTC+9

Gifu is best known for its strategic role in Japan’s history, serving as a base for warlords during the Sengoku period as they sought to unify the country. Oda Nobunaga was among them, and he gave the region its present name. The city later prospered as a shukuba on the Edo-period Nakasendō and became one of Japan’s fashion centres, while today it serves as Gifu Prefecture’s capital in the Chūkyō metropolitan area around Nagoya.