Wako
Wakō is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2021, the city had an estimated population of 84,161 in 42,434 households and a population density of 7600 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 11.04 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 82,000 residents
- Description: city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Wakō”, “Wako City”, “Wako-shi”, “Wakō-shi”, and “Wakō, Saitama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Asaka and JGSDF Public Information Center.
Asaka
Railway station
Photo: 京浜にけ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Asaka Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Asaka, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway.
JGSDF Public Information Center
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
JGSDF Public Information Center is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Takashimadaira and Hikarigaoka.
Hikarigaoka
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hikarigaoka is a neighborhood of Nerima Ward in Tokyo, Japan. The residential address system has been implemented since 1983, and the current administrative names go from Hikarigaoka 1st Street to 7th Street.
Nishi-Oizumimachi
Neighborhood
Nishi-Ōizumimachi is a small exclave neighborhood of Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan, that is cut off from the ward, surrounded entirely by the neighborhood of Katayama 3rd Street in the city of Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, approximately 60 metres north of the border between Niiza and Tokyo's neighborhood of Nishi-Ōizumi 6th Street in Nerima Ward.
Wako
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Wako-shi, Saitama, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.7817° or 35° 46′ 54″ northLongitude
139.6059° or 139° 36′ 21″ eastPopulation
82,000Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP WOTOpen location code
8Q7XQJJ4+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 622868936OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wako” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واكو، سايتاما”
- Arabic: “واكو”
- Armenian: “Վակո”
- Asturian: “Wakō”
- Bengali: “ওয়াক”
- Catalan: “Wakō”
- Cebuano: “Wakō-shi”
- Chechen: “Вако”
- Chinese: “Wakô-chhī”
- Chinese: “和光”
- Chinese: “和光市”
- Czech: “Wakó”
- Danish: “Wako”
- Dutch: “Wako”
- Esperanto: “Ŭakō”
- Esperanto: “Vakō”
- Finnish: “Wakō”
- French: “Wakō”
- Galician: “Wakō”
- German: “Wako”
- German: “Wakō”
- Greek: “Βακό”
- Gujarati: “વાકો”
- Hindi: “वाको सिटी”
- Hungarian: “Vakó”
- Indonesian: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Indonesian: “Wakō”
- Irish: “Wakō”
- Italian: “Wakō”
- Japanese: “Wakō-shi”
- Japanese: “わこうし”
- Japanese: “和光”
- Japanese: “和光市”
- Japanese: “大和町”
- Kannada: “ವಕೊ”
- Korean: “와꼬시”
- Korean: “와코시”
- Latvian: “Vaka”
- Literary Chinese: “和光市”
- Lithuanian: “Vakas”
- Malay: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Malay: “Wako”
- Marathi: “वको”
- Mazanderani: “واکو، سایتاما”
- Mazanderani: “واکو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wakô-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wako”
- Persian: “واکو، سایتاما”
- Persian: “واکو”
- Polish: “Wako”
- Polish: “Wakō”
- Portuguese: “Wako”
- Romanian: “Wako”
- Romanian: “Wakō”
- Russian: “Вако”
- Sinhala: “වකෝ”
- South Azerbaijani: “واکو، سایتاما”
- South Azerbaijani: “واکو”
- Spanish: “Wakō”
- Swedish: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Swedish: “Wakō”
- Tagalog: “Wako, Saitama”
- Tagalog: “Wako”
- Tajik: “Уако”
- Tamil: “வாகோ”
- Tatar: “Вако”
- Telugu: “వాకో”
- Thai: “วาโก”
- Turkish: “Wakō”
- Ukrainian: “Вако”
- Urdu: “واکو”
- Uzbek: “Wako”
- Vietnamese: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Vietnamese: “Wakō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wakō, Saitama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wakō”
- Yue Chinese: “和光”
- “Wakō”
- “Wakō-shi”
- “わこうし”
- “和光市”
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