Hirakata

Hirakata is a city in northeastern , Japan. As of 31 December 2021, the city had an estimated population of 397,681 in 183075 households and a population density of 6100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 65.12 square kilometres.
Photo: Jnn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 402,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Hirakata Osaka”, “Hirakata-ŝi”, “Hirakata-ši”, “Hirakata, Japan”, and “枚方町”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Goten-yama Station and Hirakata Park.

Railway station
is a passenger railway station…

Theme park
Photo: Jnn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an amusement park in Hirakata, Osaka, , nicknamed "Hirapah".

Shopping center
is a shopping center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Takatsuki.

is a city in northeastern , near .

Hirakata

Latitude
34.8144° or 34° 48′ 52″ north
Longitude
135.6507° or 135° 39′ 3″ east
Population
402,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP HKA and JP HRK
Open location code
8Q6QRM72+Q7
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hirakata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيراكاتا، أوساكا”
  • Arabic: “هيراكاتا”
  • Armenian: “Հիրակատա”
  • Asturian: “Hirakata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hirakata”
  • Basque: “Hirakata”
  • Belarusian: “Хіраката”
  • Bengali: “হিরাকাটা”
  • Bulgarian: “Хираката”
  • Catalan: “Hirakata”
  • Cebuano: “Hirakata Shi”
  • Chechen: “Хираката”
  • Chinese: “枚方市”
  • Czech: “Hirakata”
  • Danish: “Hirakata”
  • Dutch: “Hirakata”
  • Esperanto: “Hirakata”
  • Estonian: “Hirakata”
  • Finnish: “Hirakata”
  • French: “Hirakata”
  • Galician: “Hirakata”
  • German: “Hirakata”
  • Greek: “Χιρακάτα”
  • Gujarati: “હિરાકાત”
  • Hebrew: “הירקאטה”
  • Hindi: “हिराकाता”
  • Hungarian: “Hirakata”
  • Indonesian: “Hirakata”
  • Irish: “Hirakata”
  • Italian: “Hirakata”
  • Japanese: “Hirakata-shi”
  • Japanese: “ひらかたし”
  • Japanese: “枚方”
  • Japanese: “枚方市”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿರಾಕಟಾ”
  • Korean: “히라카타 시”
  • Korean: “히라카타시”
  • Latvian: “Hirakata”
  • Literary Chinese: “枚方市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirakata”
  • Macedonian: “Хираката”
  • Malagasy: “Hirakata”
  • Malay: “Hirakata, Osaka”
  • Malay: “Hirakata”
  • Marathi: “हिरकटा”
  • Mazanderani: “هیراکاتا، اوساکا”
  • Mazanderani: “هیراکاتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hirakata-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hirakata”
  • Norwegian: “Hirakata”
  • Persian: “هیراکاتا”
  • Polish: “Hirakata”
  • Portuguese: “Hirakata”
  • Romanian: “Hirakata”
  • Russian: “Хираката”
  • Samogitian: “Hirakata”
  • Scots: “Hirakata, Osaka”
  • Scots: “Hirakata”
  • Serbian: “Hirakata”
  • Serbian: “Хираката”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hirakata”
  • Sinhala: “හිරකටා”
  • Slovenian: “Hirakata”
  • Spanish: “Hirakata”
  • Swedish: “Hirakata”
  • Tagalog: “Hirakata”
  • Tajik: “Hirakata”
  • Tajik: “Ҳираката”
  • Tamil: “ஹிராக்கடா”
  • Tatar: “Хираката”
  • Telugu: “హిరకత”
  • Thai: “ฮิรากาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Hirakata”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіраката”
  • Urdu: “ہیراکاتا، اوساکا”
  • Urdu: “ہیراکاتا”
  • Venetian: “Hirakata”
  • Vietnamese: “Hirakata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hirakata, Osaka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hirakata”
  • Yue Chinese: “枚方”
  • Yue Chinese: “枚方市”

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