Hokkaido
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Sapporo

Minami

Minami-ku is one of the 10 wards in , Hokkaidō, . Minami-ku is directly translated as "south ward". Having the area of 657.48 km2 in total, Minami-ku occupies 60 percent of the area of Sapporo.
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  • Type: Suburb with 141,000 residents
  • Description: one of the ten wards in Sapporo city, Japan
  • Also known as: “Minami Ku”, “Minami Ward”, “Minami-ku”, and “Minami-ku, Sapporo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Makomanai Sekisui Haim Stadium and Makomanai Sekisui Haim Ice Arena.

Stadium
Photo: もんもん, Public domain.
The Makomanai Sekisui Heim Stadium is a multi-purpose in , . During the 1972 Winter Olympics, it hosted the opening ceremonies and the speed skating events.

Stadium
Photo: もんもん, Public domain.
Makomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arena is an indoor ice skating arena in Minami-ku, Sapporo, . It was built in December, 1970, holds 11,500 people, and has an area of 10,133 m2 in total.

Park
Photo: もんもん, Public domain.
Makomanai Park is a city park in Minami-ku, Sapporo, , Japan. It is home to attractions such as , and the Sapporo Salmon Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toyohira-ku.

Suburb
Photo: Ninosan, CC0.
is one of the 10 wards in , , Japan. The ward was established in 1972, when the Sapporo Olympics was held in Sapporo. Four other wards in Sapporo are bounded on . is situated 5 km northeast of Minami.

Minami

Latitude
42.9901° or 42° 59′ 24″ north
Longitude
141.3535° or 141° 21′ 13″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
491 metres (1,611 feet)
Open location code
8RJ3X9R3+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 364093375
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7429546
Wiki­data ID
Q1134027
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Minami” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مينامي-كو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Minami”
  • Catalan: “Minami”
  • Cebuano: “Minami-ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Hokkaidō)”
  • Cebuano: “Minami-ku”
  • Chinese: “南区”
  • Chinese: “南區(札幌市)”
  • Chinese: “南區”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Kvartalo”
  • French: “Minami-ku”
  • German: “Minami-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Minami-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Minami-ku, Sapporo”
  • Irish: “Minami-ku”
  • Italian: “Minami-ku”
  • Japanese: “Minami-ku”
  • Japanese: “みなみく”
  • Japanese: “ミナミク”
  • Japanese: “南区”
  • Japanese: “札幌市南区”
  • Korean: “미나미구”
  • Persian: “مینامی-کو، ساپورو”
  • Polish: “Minami-ku”
  • Polish: “Minami”
  • Portuguese: “Minami-ku”
  • Russian: “Минами”
  • Sardinian: “Minami-ku”
  • Spanish: “Barrio Minami”
  • Thai: “เขตมินามิ”
  • Turkish: “Minami, Sapporo”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінамі”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Мінамі”
  • Vietnamese: “Minami, Sapporo”
  • Yue Chinese: “南区”
  • Yue Chinese: “南區”
  • “Minami-ku”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Minami”. Photo: Kinori, Public domain.