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Akita Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the of . Its population is estimated 915,691 as of 1 August 2023 and its geographic area is 11,637 km2.
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is the capital and most populous city of Prefecture, , 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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is a city in southern Akita Prefecture. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of many towns: Chokai, Higashi Yuri, Nishime, Iwaki, Honjo, Yashima, and Yuri.

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is a city located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 31 January 2023, the city had an estimated population of 24,045 in 10,398 households, and a population density of 22 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 1,093.56 square kilometers.

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is a city located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 30 April 2024, the city had an estimated population of 81,617 in 33,876 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km². The total area of the city is 692.80 km2.

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Ōdate is a city in Akita prefecture in northern . Birthplace of Hachiko, the loyal dog statued in Shibuya.

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is a city located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 28 February 2023, the city has an estimated population of 24,687 in 12,496 households, and a population density of 100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 240.80 square kilometres.

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is a city at the southeastern corner of Akita Prefecture, along the border with and . It is southeast of and south of .

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is a city located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 28 February 2023, the city had an estimated population of 49,150 in 24,079 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 426.95 square kilometres.

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is a city located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 28 February 2023, the city had an estimated population of 22,958 in 9388 households, and a population density of 95 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 241.13 square kilometres.

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is a town located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 1 October 2025, the town had an estimated population of 18,613 in 5,999 households and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area was 168.34 square kilometres.

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is a town located in Akita Prefecture, . As of 28 February 2023, the town had an estimated population of 13,594 in 5141 households, and a population density of 59 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 230.78 square kilometres.

Akita

Latitude of center
39.6899° or 39° 41′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
140.3426° or 140° 20′ 33″ east
Population
960,000
Elevation
493 metres (1,617 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752195636
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
2113124
Wiki­data ID
Q81863
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Akita” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Akita”
  • Afrikaans: “Akita Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Akita-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “أكيتا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة أكيتا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Akita”
  • Armenian: “Ակիտա”
  • Asturian: “Akita (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Akita (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Akita”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura d’Akita”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akita prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Akita”
  • Bashkir: “Акита (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Акита”
  • Basque: “Akita”
  • Belarusian: “Акіта (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Акіта (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Акіта (прэфэктура)”
  • Belarusian: “Акіта”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Акіта”
  • Belarusian: “прэфэктура Акіта”
  • Bengali: “আকিতা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Акита”
  • Burmese: “အခိတခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “Akita”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Akita”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura d’Akita”
  • Cebuano: “Akita-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاکیتا”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئەکیتا”
  • Chechen: “Акита (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Акита”
  • Chinese: “Akita-koān”
  • Chinese: “秋田”
  • Chinese: “秋田县”
  • Chinese: “秋田縣”
  • Croatian: “Akita”
  • Czech: “prefektura Akita”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Akita”
  • Danish: “Akita-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Akita”
  • Esperanto: “Akita”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Akita”
  • Estonian: “Akita prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Akita-ken”
  • Finnish: “Akitan prefektuuri”
  • French: “Akita”
  • French: “préfecture d’Akita”
  • French: “Préfecture d’Akita”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Akita”
  • Gan Chinese: “秋田县”
  • Georgian: “აკიტის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Akita”
  • German: “JP-05”
  • German: “Präfektur Akita”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Άκιτα”
  • Gujarati: “અકિટા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Akita-yen”
  • Hebrew: “אקיטה”
  • Hindi: “अकिता प्रीफ़ेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Akita prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Akita”
  • Iloko: “Prefectura ti Akita”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Akita”
  • Indonesian: “Akita”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Akita”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Akita”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Akita”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Akita”
  • Japanese: “Akita-ken”
  • Japanese: “あきた”
  • Japanese: “アキタ”
  • Japanese: “あきたけん”
  • Japanese: “アキタケン”
  • Japanese: “秋田”
  • Japanese: “秋田県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Akita”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Akita”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕಿಟಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕಿತಾ”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តអាគីតា”
  • Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត អាគីតា”
  • Korean: “아끼따현”
  • Korean: “아키타 현”
  • Korean: “아키타현”
  • Korean: “추전 현”
  • Korean: “추전현”
  • Latvian: “Akitas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “秋田縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Akita prefektūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Akitos prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Акита”
  • Malay: “Akita”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Akita”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯥꯀꯤꯇꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “अकिता प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “अकिता”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Akita-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akita Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akita-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akita-kōan”
  • Mingrelian: “აკიტაშ პრეფექტურა”
  • Mongolian: “Акита”
  • Nepali: “आकिता”
  • Northern Frisian: “Akita-ken”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Akita”
  • Northern Sami: “Akita prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akita prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akita prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Akita”
  • Novial: “Akita Prefekture”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prefectura d’Akita”
  • Ossetian: “Акитæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Акитæ”
  • Pampanga: “Akita Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Akita”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਕਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਫੇਕਚਰ”
  • Persian: “استان آکیتا”
  • Persian: “استان اکیتا”
  • Polish: “Akita”
  • Polish: “JP-05”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Akita”
  • Portuguese: “Akita-ken”
  • Portuguese: “Akita”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Akita”
  • Romanian: “Akita”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Akita”
  • Russian: “Акита”
  • Sardinian: “Prefetura de Akita”
  • Scots: “Akita Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Акита”
  • Serbian: “Перфектура Акита”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Акита”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akita”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Akita”
  • Sinhala: “අකිටා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “අකිතා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Akita”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Akita”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آکیتا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Akita Japon”
  • Spanish: “Akita Japón”
  • Spanish: “Akita”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Akita”
  • Sundanese: “Akita Prefecture”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Akita”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Akita”
  • Swedish: “Akita prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Akita”
  • Tagalog: “Akita Prefecture”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Akita”
  • Tagalog: “Prepekturang Akita”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Акита”
  • Tamil: “ஆகிட்டா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
  • Tatar: “Акита (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Акита”
  • Telugu: “అకితా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอะกิตะ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอากิตะ”
  • Turkish: “Akita prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Akita”
  • Uighur: “ئاكىتا ناھىيىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Акіта”
  • Ukrainian: “префектура Акіта”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Акіта”
  • Urdu: “اکیتا پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Akita”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Akita”
  • Vietnamese: “Thu Điền Huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “秋田県”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akita Prefecture”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akita”
  • Welsh: “Akita”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع اکیٹا”
  • Wu Chinese: “秋田县”
  • Yue Chinese: “秋田”
  • Yue Chinese: “秋田县”
  • Yue Chinese: “秋田縣”

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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 “Akita”. Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋), CC BY 2.0.