Kita-ku

Kita-ku is a ward of composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas.
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  • Type: Suburb with 285,000 residents
  • Description: one of the ten wards in Sapporo city, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kita Ku”, “Kita Ward”, “Kita-ku, Sapporo”, “Кіта”, and “北区 (札幌市)”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Sapporo Station.

Government office
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Ishikari Subprefecture is a subprefecture…

Railway station
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is a major railway station in Kita-ku, Sapporo, , .

Railway station
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is a railway station in …

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Higashi-ku and Chūō-ku.

Suburb
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is one of the 10 wards in , Hokkaidō, .

Suburb
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is one of the ten wards in , , . is situated 4 km south of Kita-ku.

Suburb
is a ward of composed of residential… is situated 3½ km southwest of Kita-ku.

Kita-ku

Latitude
43.0907° or 43° 5′ 26″ north
Longitude
141.3408° or 141° 20′ 27″ east
Population
285,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8RM338RR+78
Open­Street­Map ID
node 364094942
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7429536
Wiki­data ID
Q1134013
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Kita-ku” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kita (Sapporo)”
  • Catalan: “Kita”
  • Cebuano: “Kita-ku”
  • Chinese: “北区”
  • Chinese: “北區”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Kvartalo”
  • French: “Kita-ku”
  • German: “Kita-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Kita-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Kita-ku, Sapporo”
  • Irish: “Kita-ku”
  • Italian: “Kita-ku (Sapporo)”
  • Italian: “Kita-ku”
  • Japanese: “Kita-ku”
  • Japanese: “きたく”
  • Japanese: “キタク”
  • Japanese: “北区”
  • Japanese: “札幌市北区”
  • Korean: “기타구”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kita-ku”
  • Persian: “کیتا-کو، ساپورو”
  • Persian: “کیتا-کو”
  • Polish: “Kita”
  • Spanish: “Barrio Kita (Sapporo)”
  • Thai: “เขตคิตะ”
  • Turkish: “Kita, Sapporo”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Кіта”
  • Urdu: “کیٹا-کو، ساپورو”
  • Vietnamese: “Kita, Sapporo”
  • Yue Chinese: “北區”
  • “Kita-ku”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Kita-24-jo-Nishi 6-chome and Kita-24-jo-Nishi 5-chome.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Sapporo Kita Ward Office and 札幌北年金事務所.

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