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Hi·ro·shima (hir′ə s̸hē′mə, hi rō′s̸hi mə)
seaport in SW Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea: largely destroyed (Aug. 6, 1945) by a U.S. atomic bomb, the first ever used in warfare: pop. 1,077,000
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