Abashiri
Abashiri is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Abashiri is known as the site of the Abashiri Prison, a Meiji-era facility used for the incarceration of political prisoners.
Photo: 221.20, Public domain.
- Type: City with 35,000 residents
- Description: city in Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as: “Abaschiri”, “Abashiri (hokkaido)”, “Abashiri (Hokkaido)”, “Abashiri (ville)”, “Abashiri, hokkaidō”, “Abasyiri, Hokkaido”, “Aburatsu”, “Абасірі, Хоккайдо”, “Абасіры (горад)”, “აბაშირი”, “اباشیری، هوکایدو”, “आबासीरी”, and “網走町”
- Neighbors: Kitami and Ozora
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hokkaido Okhotsk General Subprefectural Bereau and Abashiri Station.
Hokkaido Okhotsk General Subprefectural Bereau
Government building
Photo: 221.20, Public domain.
Abashiri
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Abashiri Shi, Eastern Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
44.0206° or 44° 1′ 14″ north
Longitude
144.2732° or 144° 16′ 24″ east
Population
35,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP ABA
Open location code
8RP627CF+67
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Abashiri” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أباشيري، هوكايدو”
- Arabic: “أباشيري”
- Asturian: “Abashiri”
- Azerbaijani: “Abaşiri”
- Basque: “Abashiri”
- Belarusian: “Абасіры”
- Bengali: “আবাশিরি”
- Catalan: “Abashiri”
- Cebuano: “Abashiri-shi”
- Chechen: “Абасири (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Абасири”
- Chinese: “網走”
- Chinese: “網走市”
- Chinese: “网走市”
- Czech: “Abaširi”
- Danish: “Abashiri”
- Dutch: “Abashiri”
- Esperanto: “Abaŝiri (urbo)”
- Esperanto: “Abaŝiri”
- Estonian: “Abashiri”
- Finnish: “Abashiri”
- French: “Abashiri”
- Galician: “Abashiri”
- Georgian: “აბასირი”
- German: “Abashiri”
- Greek: “Αμπασίρι”
- Gujarati: “અબાશિરી”
- Hebrew: “אבאשירי”
- Hindi: “आबाशीरी”
- Hungarian: “Abasiri”
- Icelandic: “Abashiri”
- Ido: “Abashiri, Hokkaido”
- Ido: “Abashiri”
- Indonesian: “Abashiri, Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Abashiri”
- Irish: “Abashiri”
- Italian: “Abashiri”
- Japanese: “Abashiri-shi”
- Japanese: “あばしりし”
- Japanese: “網走”
- Japanese: “網走市”
- Kannada: “ಅಬಶಿರಿ”
- Korean: “아바시리 시”
- Korean: “아바시리시”
- Latvian: “Abaširi”
- Literary Chinese: “網走市”
- Lithuanian: “Abaširis”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Abashiri”
- Malagasy: “Abashiri”
- Malay: “Abashiri”
- Marathi: “अबशीरी”
- Mazanderani: “آباشیری، هوکایدو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Abasiri-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abashiri”
- Norwegian: “Abashiri”
- Pampanga: “Abashiri, Hokkaidō”
- Persian: “آباشیری، هوکایدو”
- Polish: “Abashiri”
- Portuguese: “Abashiri”
- Romanian: “Abashiri”
- Russian: “Абасири”
- Sinhala: “අබශිරි”
- South Azerbaijani: “آباشیری، هوکایدو”
- Spanish: “Abashiri”
- Swedish: “Abashiri”
- Tagalog: “Abashiri, Hokkaidō”
- Tagalog: “Abashiri”
- Talysh: “Abaširi”
- Talysh: “Abaşiri”
- Tamil: “அபாஷிரி”
- Tatar: “Абасири”
- Telugu: “అబాషిరి”
- Thai: “อะบะชิริ”
- Thai: “อาบาชิริ”
- Tumbuka: “Abashiri”
- Turkish: “Abashiri”
- Ukrainian: “Абасірі”
- Ukrainian: “Абашірі”
- Urdu: “اباشیری”
- Uzbek: “Abashiri”
- Vietnamese: “Abashiri, Hokkaidō”
- Vietnamese: “Abashiri”
- Waray (Philippines): “Abashiri, Hokkaidō”
- Yue Chinese: “網走”
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