Kaga
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Kaga may refer to:
- Kaga, IshikawaKaga, Ishikawais a city located in the southwest of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.Created as an old temple town, the city was greatly developed by the Maeda clan in the early Edo period...
, a city in Japan. - Kaga ProvinceKaga Provincewas an old province in the area that is today the southern part of Ishikawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called .Ruled by the Maeda clan, the capital of Kaga was Kanazawa. Kaga bordered on Echizen, Etchū, Hida, and Noto Provinces...
, an old province of Japan, now part of Ishikawa prefecture. - Kaga DomainKaga DomainThe was a powerful feudal domain in Kaga, Noto and Etchū Provinces of Japan during the Edo period. The domain was founded by Maeda Toshiie and headed by the Maeda clan. Its income rating, over 1,000,000 koku, was the highest in the nation after the Tokugawa shogunate itself...
, an old feudal domain (han) in Kaga Province - Kaga Takeshi, better known as Chairman Kaga of Iron Chef.
- Japanese aircraft carrier KagaJapanese aircraft carrier KagaKaga was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy , named after the former Kaga Province in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture...
, an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the province. - Kaga, NigeriaKaga, NigeriaKaga is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Benisheikh.It has an area of 2,700 km² and a population of 90,015 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 601....
, a Local Government Area of Nigeria in Borno StateBorno StateBorno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. Its capital is Maiduguri. The state was formed in 1976 from the split of the North-Eastern State... - Kaga is a parish with a 12th century church, just north-west of LinköpingLinköpingLinköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...
, Sweden (58.454° N, 15.530° E).