Chūō-ku
Chūō-ku is one of the ten wards in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Chūō-ku means "central ward" in Japanese. City administration and entertainment facilities are centred in this ward.
Photo: Kuriki, Public domain.- Type: Suburb with 238,000 residents
- Description: one of the ten wards of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as: “Chuo”, “Chūō”, “Chuo Ku”, “Chūō Ku”, “Chuo Ward”, “Chuo-ku”, and “Chūō-ku, Sapporo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Ōdōri Park.
Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau
Government office
Ishikari Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, located in the western part of the island. The subprefecture covers 3,539.86 square kilometres and on July 31, 2023 had a population of 2,379,802.
Ōdōri Park
Park
Sapporo Station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Higashi-ku and Kita-ku.
Higashi-ku
Suburb
Higashi-ku is one of the 10 wards in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is directly translated as "east ward", and is neighboured to Kita-ku, Chūō-ku, Shiroishi-ku, Ebetsu, Tōbetsu.
Kita-ku
Suburb
Nishi
Suburb
Nishi is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, with some areas of farmland and forested mountainous terrain mostly near its western and southern edges. Nishi is situated 4 km northwest of Chūō-ku.
Chūō-ku
- Categories: ward of Japan and locality
- Location: Sapporo, Central Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.0553° or 43° 3′ 19″ north
Longitude
141.341° or 141° 20′ 28″ east
Population
238,000
Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)
Open location code
8RM3384R+49
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Chūō-ku” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Chūō (Sapporo)”
- Catalan: “Chūō”
- Cebuano: “Chūō-ku”
- Chinese: “中央区”
- Chinese: “中央區”
- Esperanto: “Centra Kvartalo”
- French: “Chuo-ku”
- French: “Chūō-ku”
- Galician: “Chuo-ku”
- German: “Chuo-ku”
- German: “Chūō-ku”
- Hungarian: “Csúó-ku”
- Indonesian: “Chūō-ku, Sapporo”
- Irish: “Chuo-ku”
- Italian: “Chūō-ku (Sapporo)”
- Italian: “Chūō-ku”
- Japanese: “Chūō-Ku”
- Japanese: “ちゅうおうく”
- Japanese: “チュウオウク”
- Japanese: “中央区 (札幌市)”
- Japanese: “中央区”
- Japanese: “札幌市中央区”
- Korean: “주오구”
- Persian: “چوئو-کو، ساپورو”
- Persian: “چوئو-کو”
- Polish: “Chuo-ku”
- Polish: “Chūō-ku”
- Polish: “Chuo”
- Polish: “Chūō”
- Portuguese: “Chuo-ku (Sapporo)”
- Portuguese: “Chuo-ku”
- Russian: “Тюо-ку”
- Spanish: “barrio Chūō (Sapporo)”
- Spanish: “Chūō-ku”
- Swedish: “Chūō-ku”
- Thai: “เขตชูโอ”
- Turkish: “Chūō, Sapporo”
- Ukrainian: “Район Чюо”
- Ukrainian: “Тюо”
- Urdu: “چوو وارڈ، ساپورو”
- Vietnamese: “Chūō, Sapporo”
- Yue Chinese: “中央区”
- Yue Chinese: “中央區”
- “Chūō”
- “Chūō-ku”
- “Chuuou-ku”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Chūō-ku ward office in Sapporo city and 札幌市中央区複合庁舎.
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