title: Nagata-ku, Kobe
text: # Nagata-ku, Kobe
  
  Nagata (長田区, Nagata-ku) is one of 9 wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 11.46 km², and a population of 96,072 (2018). This region suffered the largest number of casualties in the Great Hanshin earthquake.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  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.
  
  ## Education
  
  West Kobe Korean Elementary School (西神戸朝鮮初級学校), a North Korean school, is in the ward.
  
  The South Korean government maintains the Korean Education Center (Korean: 고베한국교육원, Japanese: 神戸韓国教育院) in this ward.
  
  