Nagata (長田区, Nagata-ku) is one of 9 wards of Kobe, Japan.

This region suffered the largest number of casualties in the Great Hanshin earthquake.

In recent years Nagata-ku's overall population has been decreasing, but the number of foreign residents has been increasing.

Nagata-ku now has the largest Korean and Vietnamese communities in Kobe.

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