Nogata [city] - Nogata

Japanese: 直方[市] - のおがた

A city in northern Fukuoka Prefecture. It was incorporated as a city in 1931. It is located at the confluence of the Onga River and Hikosan River, at the southern end of the Nogata Plain. Since ancient times, it has been a distribution center for goods transported by water on the Onga River, but with the development of the Chikuho coalfields in the mid-Meiji period, it developed as a coal mining town and coal transportation center. Coal mining machinery manufacturing and wholesale and retail businesses also flourished, and it became the central city of the Chikuho coalfields. Since the coal mines closed, the focus has been on machinery, electrical equipment, and metal industries, and in recent years, the Small and Medium Enterprise College has been established and development is progressing as a location for cutting-edge industries. The Chikuho Main Line runs through the city, and the Heisei Chikuho Railway branches off here, and the Chikuho Electric Railway also runs through it. The Fukuchi Mountains area in the east is part of the Kitakyushu Quasi-National Park. ^{61.76 km2} . 57,686 people (2010).

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福岡県北部の市。1931年市制。直方平野の南端，遠賀(おんが)川と彦山川の合流点に位置する。古来，遠賀川の水運による物資集散地であったが，明治中期，筑豊炭田の開発に伴って，炭鉱町，石炭輸送の中心地として発達。炭鉱機械の製造，卸小売業も興り，筑豊炭田の中心都市となった。炭鉱閉山以降は機械，電機，金属工業が中心で，近年は中小企業大学校を設けるなど，先端産業立地への整備が進む。筑豊本線が通じ，平成筑豊鉄道が分岐，筑豊電鉄も通じる。東部の福知山地一帯は北九州国定公園に属する。61.76km²。５万7686人（2010）。