Hokkaido
Hokkaido is the second-largest and northernmost of Japan's four main islands. Together with its surrounding islands, it comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.- Type: prefecture of Japan with 5,110,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “Hokaido reģions”, “Hokkai Do”, “Hokkaidō (prefeutura)”, “Hokkaidō (Xapón)”, “Hokkaidō Prefectur”, “Hokkaido Prefecture”, “Hokkaidō prefektur”, “Hokkaido prefektuur”, “Hokkaido region”, “JP-01”, “Nordmeerpräfektur”, “Nordmeerreichskreis”, “Nordmeerroute”, “Prefectur o Hokkaido”, “prefectura d’Hokkaidō”, “Prefectura Hokkaido”, “Prefectuur Hokkaidō”, “Prefektur Hokkaidō”, “Prefettura di Hokkaido”, “Губернатарства Хакайда”, “Префектураи Ҳоккаидо”, “прэфэктура Хакайда”, “Регіон Хоккайдо”, “Хакайда (прэфектура)”, “Хакайда (прэфэктура)”, “Հոկայդո (նահանգապետություն)”, “จังหวัดฮกไกโด”, “호까이 도”, “호까이도”, “호까이도오”, “혹가이 도”, “혹가이도”, “혹까이 도”, “홋까이 도”, “홋까이도”, “홋카이 도”, “홋카이도 지방”, “훗카이 도”, “훗카이도”, “흣카이 도”, and “흣카이도”
- Neighbors: Aomori and Sakhalin Oblast
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Ōdōri Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sapporo and Kita-ku.
Hokkaido
- Category: dō
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
43.0645° or 43° 3′ 52″ north
Longitude
141.3466° or 141° 20′ 48″ east
Population
5,110,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Open location code
8RM3387W+RJ
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Hokkaido” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሆካይዶ”
- Arabic: “هوكايدو”
- Armenian: “Հոկայդո”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Hokkaidō”
- Azerbaijani: “Hokkaido”
- Azerbaijani: “Hokkaydo prefekturası”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Хакайда”
- Belarusian: “Хакайда”
- Bengali: “হক্কাইডো”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Hokkaidō”
- Cebuano: “Hokkaidō (prepektura sa Hapon)”
- Cebuano: “Hokkaidō”
- Chechen: “Хоккайдо (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Хоккайдо”
- Chinese: “北海道”
- Croatian: “Hokkaido, prefektura”
- Croatian: “Hokkaido”
- Czech: “prefektura Hokkaidó”
- Danish: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Dutch: “Prefectuur Hokkaido”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Hokajdo”
- Estonian: “Hokkaidō prefektuur”
- French: “Hokkaido”
- French: “Préfecture d’Hokkaidō”
- French: “préfecture de Hokkaidō”
- Galician: “prefectura de Hokkaidō”
- German: “Hokkaido”
- German: “Hokkaidō”
- Greek: “Χοκκάιντο”
- Hausa: “Hokkaido”
- Hebrew: “הוקאידו”
- Hungarian: “Hokkaidó prefektúra”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Hokkaido”
- Irish: “Maoracht Hokkaido”
- Italian: “prefettura di Hokkaidō”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Hokkaidō”
- Japanese: “Hokkaidō”
- Japanese: “ほっかいどう”
- Japanese: “ホッカイドウ”
- Japanese: “北海”
- Japanese: “北海道”
- Javanese: “Hokkaido”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Xokkaydo prefekturası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Xokkaydо”
- Kazakh: “Hokkaido”
- Kirghiz: “Hokkaido”
- Korean: “북해도”
- Korean: “혹까이도”
- Korean: “홋카이도”
- Latvian: “Hokaido prefektūra”
- Malay: “Hokkaido”
- Mingrelian: “ჰოკაიდოშ პრეფექტურა”
- Northern Sami: “Hokkaidō prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Hokkaidō”
- Oromo: “Hokkaido”
- Ossetian: “Хоккайдо (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Хоккайдо”
- Pampanga: “Hokkaidō labuad”
- Panjabi: “ਹਾਕਾਈਡੋ”
- Persian: “هوکایدو”
- Polish: “prefektura Hokkaido”
- Portuguese: “Hokkaido”
- Pushto: “هوکايډو”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Hokkaidō”
- Russian: “Хоккайдо”
- Scots: “Hokkaido Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Хокаидо”
- Slovenian: “Hokaido”
- Somali: “Hokkaido”
- Spanish: “Hokkaido”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Hokkaido”
- Swahili: “Hokkaido”
- Swedish: “Hokkaido prefektur”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Hokkajdo”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Ҳоккайдо”
- Tajik: “Ҳоккайдо”
- Tatar: “Хоккайдо (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Хоккайдо”
- Thai: “ฮกไกโด”
- Ukrainian: “префектура Хоккайдо”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Хоккайдо”
- Uzbek: “Hokkaido”
- Vietnamese: “Hokkaidō”
- Western Frisian: “Prefektuer Hokkaido”
- Yue Chinese: “北海道”
- “ma Okawito”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kita-rokujō and Minami-yonjō.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Tonan Byōin and Hotel Sapporo Garden Palace.
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