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Akita

Akita is the capital and most populous city of , , 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.
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  • Type: City with 308,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Akita prefecture, Japan
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Akita Museum of Art and Kubota Castle.

Museum
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is an art museum in the city of Akita. The original Akita Prefectural Museum of Art was opened on May 5, 1967. The new museum was opened on September 28, 2013.

Castle
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is a Japanese castle in Akita, , . Throughout the Edo period, was home to the Satake clan, daimyō of Kubota Domain, rulers of northern Dewa Province.

Sports venue
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, formerly a.k.a. Akita Yabase Athletic Field, is an athletic in Akita, Akita, . Located approximately 3 kilometers from the city center, the Akita Yabase Stadium is a multi-use facility opened in September 1941.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hiroomote.

Quarter
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is a neighbourhood located in Akita City, , Japan. Annexed by the city in 1941, it borders the neighborhoods of Shimokitate on the east, Yanagida on the north, Tegata on the west and Sakura and Yokomori on the south that is bounded by Taihei River.

Akita

Latitude
39.7198° or 39° 43′ 11″ north
Longitude
140.1035° or 140° 6′ 13″ east
Population
308,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
AXT
United Nations Location Code
JP AXT
Open location code
8RF2P493+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752195639
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2113126
Wiki­data ID
Q17139
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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: “Akita-chhī”
  • 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”
  • “Akita”

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