Sado
Sado is a city located on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Since 2004, the city has comprised the entire island, although not all of its total area is urbanized.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 伊藤善行, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sado Island and Shōbō-ji Temple.
Sado Island
Photo: Kiyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sado Island is an island off the coast of Niigata in the Chubu region of Japan. The whole island forms a municipality, Sado City. The historical gold mines of the island became a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.
Shōbō-ji Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Wakuwaku99, Public domain.
Shōbō-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple.
Sado
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Sado, Niigata, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.0183° or 38° 1′ 6″ northLongitude
138.3684° or 138° 22′ 6″ eastPopulation
57,300Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)Inception
March 1st, 2004IATA airport code
SDSUnited Nations Location Code
JP SDOOpen location code
8QCW2999+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 752398618OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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، نیگاتا”
- 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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