Akita
Akita is the capital and most populous city of Akita Prefecture, Japan, and has been designated a core city since 1 April 1997. As of 1 August 2023, the city has an estimated population of 300,502 persons in 136,628 households and a population density of 332 persons per km2.
- City with 308,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 14 metres (46 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code AXT
- Description: capital city of Akita prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akita Museum of Art and Kubota Castle Ruins.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hiroomote.
Hiroomote
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.Akita
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Latitude
39.7198° or 39° 43′ 11″ north
Longitude
140.1035° or 140° 6′ 13″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP AXT
Open location code
8RF2P493+W9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Akita” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Akita”
- Arabic: “أكيتا، أكيتا”
- Arabic: “أكيتا”
- Aragonese: “Akita”
- Armenian: “Ակիտա”
- Asturian: “Akita”
- Azerbaijani: “Akita”
- Balinese: “Akita, Akita”
- Basque: “Akita”
- Belarusian: “Акіта (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Акіта”
- Bengali: “আকিতা”
- Bulgarian: “Акита”
- Catalan: “Akita”
- Cebuano: “Akita Shi (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Akita Shi”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەکیتا”
- Chechen: “Акита (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Акита”
- Chinese: “秋田市”
- Croatian: “Akita”
- Czech: “Akita”
- Danish: “Akita”
- Dutch: “Akita”
- Esperanto: “Akita”
- Estonian: “Akita”
- Finnish: “Akita”
- French: “Akita”
- Galician: “Akita”
- Georgian: “აკიტა”
- German: “Akita”
- Greek: “Άκιτα”
- Gujarati: “અકીતા”
- Hausa: “Yanayin Akita, Akita”
- Hebrew: “אקיטה”
- Hindi: “आकिता”
- Hungarian: “Akita”
- Icelandic: “Akita”
- Iloko: “Akita, Akita”
- Iloko: “Akita”
- Indonesian: “Akita, Akita”
- Indonesian: “Akita”
- Irish: “Akita”
- Italian: “Akita”
- Japanese: “Akita-shi”
- Japanese: “あきたし”
- Japanese: “秋田”
- Japanese: “秋田市”
- Kannada: “ಅಕಿತಾ”
- Korean: “아키타 시”
- Korean: “아키타시”
- Latvian: “Akita”
- Literary Chinese: “秋田市”
- Lithuanian: “Akita”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Akita”
- Malay: “Akita”
- Malayalam: “അകിത, ജപ്പാൻ”
- Marathi: “अकिता”
- Mazanderani: “آکیتا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akita-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akita”
- Norwegian: “Akita”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Akita”
- Persian: “آکیتا”
- Polish: “Akita”
- Portuguese: “Akita”
- Romanian: “Akita”
- Russian: “Акита”
- Sardinian: “Akita”
- Scots: “Akita, Akita”
- Scots: “Akita”
- Serbian: “Акита”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Akita”
- Silesian: “Akita (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Akita”
- Sinhala: “අකිටා”
- Slovak: “Akita”
- Slovenian: “Akita”
- South Azerbaijani: “آکیتا”
- Spanish: “Akita”
- Sundanese: “Akita, Akita”
- Sundanese: “Akita”
- Swahili: “Akita, Akita”
- Swahili: “Akita”
- Swedish: “Akita”
- Tagalog: “Akita”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Akita”
- Tajik: “Акита”
- Tamil: “ஆகிட்டா”
- Tatar: “Акита”
- Telugu: “అకిటా”
- Thai: “อากิตะ”
- Turkish: “Akita”
- Ukrainian: “Акіта”
- Urdu: “اکیتا، اکیتا”
- Uzbek: “Akita”
- Venetian: “Akita”
- Vietnamese: “Akita”
- Waray (Philippines): “Akita”
- Wu Chinese: “秋田市”
- Yue Chinese: “秋田市”
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