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Niigata

Kita-ku

Kita-ku is one of the eight wards of Niigata City, , in the Hokuriku region of . As of 1 September 2018, the ward had an estimated population of 74,559 in households and a population density of 690 persons per km².
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  • Type: Suburb with 77,100 residents
  • Description: one of the eight wards of the City of Niigata
  • Also known as: “Kita Ward” and “Kita-ku, Niigata”
  • Postal code: 950-3393

Places of Interest

Highlights include Toyosaka Station and View Fukushimagata.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station on the Hakushin Line in Kita-ku, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Museum
Photo: Aney, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Museum
Photo: Drph17, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kita-ku

Latitude
37.9163° or 37° 54′ 59″ north
Longitude
139.2188° or 139° 13′ 8″ east
Population
77,100
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
8Q9XW689+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752398537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7468169
Wiki­data ID
Q711739
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Kita-ku” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Kita Ku”
  • Chinese: “北区”
  • Chinese: “北區”
  • Czech: “Kita-ku”
  • Czech: “北区”
  • French: “Kita-ku”
  • German: “Kita-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Kita-ku”
  • Irish: “Kita-ku”
  • Italian: “Kita-ku (Niigata)”
  • Italian: “Kita-ku”
  • Japanese: “Kita-ku”
  • Japanese: “きたく”
  • Japanese: “キタク”
  • Japanese: “北区 (新潟市)”
  • Japanese: “北区”
  • Japanese: “新潟市北区”
  • Korean: “기타구”
  • Lithuanian: “Kita-ku”
  • Persian: “کیتا-کو، نیگاتا”
  • Persian: “کیتا-کو”
  • Russian: “Кита-ку”
  • Spanish: “Kita-ku”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Кіта”
  • Urdu: “کیتا وارڈ، نیگاتا”
  • Urdu: “کیتا وارڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Kita-ku”
  • Venetian: “Kita-ku”
  • Vietnamese: “Kita, Niigata”
  • Vietnamese: “Kita”

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Highlights include 新潟市北区役所 and 福明寺.

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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 “Kita-ku”. Photo: Aney, CC BY-SA 3.0.