Shirataka
Shirataka is a town located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 29 February 2020, the town had an estimated population of 13,482 in 4730 households, and a population density of 85 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 737.55 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 14,200 residents
- Description: town in Nishiokitama district, Yamagata prefecture, Japan
- Historically known as: “Higashine-mura”, “Jūō-mura”, “Koguwa-mura”, and “Shirataka-mura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arato Station and Shikinosato Station.
Arato Station
Railway station
Photo: Traveller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arato Station is a railway station in Shirataka, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the Yamagata Railway.
Shikinosato Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shikinosato Station is a railway station in Shirataka, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the Yamagata Railway.
Ayukai Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ayukai Station is a railway station in Shirataka, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the Yamagata Railway.
Shirataka
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Nishiokitama-gun, Yamagata, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.183° or 38° 10′ 59″ northLongitude
140.0984° or 140° 5′ 54″ eastPopulation
14,200Elevation
211 metres (692 feet)Open location code
8RC253MX+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 752206831OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2111021Wikidata ID
Q1354787
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Shirataka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيراتاكا”
- Asturian: “Shirataka”
- Catalan: “Shirataka”
- Cebuano: “Shirataka Machi”
- Chinese: “白鷹町”
- Chinese: “白鹰町”
- Czech: “Širataka”
- Dutch: “Shirataka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيراتاكا”
- French: “Shirataka”
- German: “Shirataka”
- Hungarian: “Sirataka”
- Indonesian: “Shirataka, Yamagata”
- Irish: “Shirataka”
- Italian: “Shirataka”
- Japanese: “Shirataka-machi”
- Japanese: “しらたかまち”
- Japanese: “シラタカマチ”
- Japanese: “白鷹町”
- Korean: “시라타카마치”
- Korean: “시라타카정”
- Malay: “Shirataka, Yamagata”
- Persian: “شیراتاکا”
- Polish: “Shirataka”
- Portuguese: “Shirataka”
- Russian: “Сиратака”
- Spanish: “Shirataka”
- Swedish: “Shirataka”
- Tagalog: “Shirataka, Yamagata”
- Tagalog: “Shirataka”
- Thai: “ชิราตากะ”
- Turkish: “Shirataka”
- Ukrainian: “Сіратака”
- Ukrainian: “Шіратака”
- Uzbek: “Shirataka”
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