a city on the south coast of the island of Honshu, western Japan, capital of Chugoku region; pop. 1,144,572 (2007). It was the target of the first atom bomb, which was dropped by the United States on 6 August 1945 and resulted in the deaths of about one third of the city's population of 300,000. Together with a second attack, on Nagasaki three days later, this led to Japan's surrender and the end of the Second World War.
广岛（日本西部本州岛南海岸城市, 中国地区首府; 2007年人口1,144,572; 1945年8月6日因美国在此投下原子弹而成为第一个受原子弹袭击的目标, 造成了城市30万人口中约1/3的人死亡; 三天后长崎遭受第二颗原子弹袭击, 这导致了日本的投降与第二次世界大战的结束）。