Sado

Sado is a city located on in , Japan. Since 2004, the city has comprised the entire island, although not all of its total area is urbanized.
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  • Type: City with 57,300 residents
  • Description: city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sado Island and Shōbō-ji Temple.

Photo: Kiyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an island off the coast of in the region of . The whole island forms a municipality, Sado City. The historical gold mines of the island became a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Wakuwaku99, Public domain.
is a Buddhist temple.

Museum
Photo: 水乃, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sado

Latitude
38.0183° or 38° 1′ 6″ north
Longitude
138.3684° or 138° 22′ 6″ east
Population
57,300
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Inception
March 1st, 2004
IATA airport code
SDS
United Nations Location Code
JP SDO
Open location code
8QCW2999+89
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752398618
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6825492
Wiki­data ID
Q499047
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Satellite Map

Discover Sado from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sado” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سادو”
  • Asturian: “Sado”
  • Basque: “Sado uhartea”
  • Bengali: “সাদো”
  • Catalan: “Sado”
  • Cebuano: “Sado Shi”
  • Chechen: “Садо”
  • Chinese: “Sado-chhī”
  • Chinese: “佐渡”
  • Chinese: “佐渡市”
  • Czech: “Sado”
  • Danish: “Sado”
  • Dutch: “Sado”
  • Esperanto: “Sado”
  • Finnish: “Sado”
  • French: “Sado-shi”
  • French: “Sado”
  • Galician: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Galician: “Sado”
  • German: “Sado”
  • Greek: “Σάντο”
  • Greek: “Σαντοσίμα”
  • Gujarati: “સડો”
  • Hausa: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Hebrew: “סאדו”
  • Hindi: “सादो”
  • Hungarian: “Szado”
  • Indonesian: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Indonesian: “Sado”
  • Irish: “Sado”
  • Italian: “Sado”
  • Japanese: “Sado-shi”
  • Japanese: “さどし”
  • Japanese: “佐渡”
  • Japanese: “佐渡市”
  • Kannada: “ಸಡೊ”
  • Korean: “사도시”
  • Latin: “Sado”
  • Latvian: “Sado”
  • Literary Chinese: “佐渡市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sadas”
  • Malay: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Malay: “Sado”
  • Malayalam: “സാഡോ ദ്വീപ്”
  • Marathi: “सदो”
  • Mazanderani: “سادو، نیگاتا”
  • Mazanderani: “سادو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sado-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sado”
  • Norwegian: “Sado”
  • Persian: “سادو”
  • Polish: “Sado”
  • Polish: “Sadō”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Sado”
  • Portuguese: “Sado”
  • Romanian: “Sado”
  • Russian: “Садо”
  • Russian: “Япония”
  • Serbian: “Садо”
  • Sinhala: “සඩෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Sado”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سادو، نیقاتا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سادو”
  • Spanish: “Isla Sado”
  • Spanish: “Sado”
  • Swedish: “Sado”
  • Tagalog: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Tagalog: “Sado”
  • Tajik: “Sado”
  • Tajik: “Садо, Ниигата”
  • Tajik: “Садо”
  • Tamil: “சாடோ”
  • Tatar: “Садо”
  • Telugu: “సాదొ”
  • Thai: “ซาโดะ”
  • Turkish: “Sado, Japonya”
  • Turkish: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Ukrainian: “Садо”
  • Urdu: “سدو، نیگاتا”
  • Urdu: “سدو”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Sado”
  • Vietnamese: “Sado, Niigata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sado”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố đảo Sado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sado, Niigata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sado”
  • Yue Chinese: “佐渡”

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