Kita-ku

Kita-ku is a ward of the city of Sakai in , . The ward has an area of 15.58 km2 and a population of 154,846. The population density is 9,945 per km2.
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  • Type: Suburb with 159,000 residents
  • Description: one of the seven wards of the City of Sakai, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kita Ward” and “Kita-ku, Sakai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Daisen Kofun and Sakaishi Station.

Archaeological site
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
The Mozu Kofun Group is a group of kofun—megalithic tombs—in Sakai, , . Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, fewer than 50% of the key-hole, round, and rectangular tombs remain.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station in located in , , , operated by West Japan Railway Company.

Railway station
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is the name of two adjacent railway stations located in Kita-ku, Sakai, , Japan. The above ground station is an interchange station operated jointly by the private Nankai Electric Railway and the Semboku Rapid Railway, and the underground station is operated by the Osaka Metro.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Osaka and Hirano.

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covers the southern wards of : Nishinari, Abeno, Ikuno and Sumiyoshi. For the central Minami area, see ; for the northern parts of Abeno near Tennoji station, see ; for Hirano which was originally independent city from Osaka, see .

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Hirano-ku is one of 24 wards which make up the city of , and is located in the southeast of the city. It is the largest Osaka ward in population and the only ward to have over 200,000 residents.

Suburb
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is one of 24 wards of , . It is located on the southern part of the Uemachi Plateau, in the southernmost part of Osaka City, and is separated from Sakai City's Sakai-ku and Kita-ku by the Yamato River. is situated 4 km north of Kita-ku.

Kita-ku

Latitude
34.5655° or 34° 33′ 56″ north
Longitude
135.5172° or 135° 31′ 2″ east
Population
159,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 2006
Open location code
8Q6QHG88+6V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 551364958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7391691
Wiki­data ID
Q1042504
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Kita-ku” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kita”
  • Cebuano: “Kita Ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Ōsaka-fu, Sakai Shi)”
  • Cebuano: “Kita Ku”
  • Chinese: “北区”
  • Chinese: “北區”
  • French: “arrondissement nord”
  • French: “Arrondissement Nord”
  • French: “Kita-ku”
  • German: “Kita-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Kita-ku”
  • Irish: “Kita-ku”
  • Italian: “Kita-ku (Sakai)”
  • Italian: “Kita-ku”
  • Japanese: “Kita-ku”
  • Japanese: “きたく”
  • Japanese: “キタク”
  • Japanese: “北区”
  • Japanese: “堺市北区”
  • Korean: “기타구”
  • Persian: “کیتا-کو، ساکای”
  • Persian: “کیتا-کو”
  • Spanish: “Kita-ku”
  • Swedish: “Kita-ku”
  • Thai: “เขตคิตะ”
  • Turkish: “Kita, Sakai”
  • Venetian: “Kita-ku”
  • Vietnamese: “Kita-ku”
  • Yue Chinese: “北區 (堺市)”

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