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Hokkaido

Hokkaido is the northernmost of 's four main islands and at the same time a prefecture. With both size and population similar to , it is the most sparsely populated part of Japan.
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is the capital and largest city of the northern island of Hokkaido. One of Japan's newest and most orderly cities, it has little in the way of traditional architecture.

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is a port city in Southern Hokkaidō, . Separated by the 20-km long Tsugaru Strait from , Japan's main island, the city has naturally been seen as an entrance to Hokkaido.

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is the second-largest city on the northern island of Hokkaido, . It is located at the confluence of four rivers and is surrounded by hills.

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The covers the western and central parts of the northern island of Hokkaido.

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The covers the eastern half of the northern island of Hokkaido.

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The covers the northern and inner part of the northern island of Hokkaido.

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The covers the western and central parts of the northern island of Hokkaido.

Hokkaido

  • Type: Region with 5,500,000 residents
  • Description: island of Japan
  • Also known as: “Ainu Mosir”, “Akor Mosir”, “Aynu Mosir”, “Eso”, “Hokkaidō”, “Hokkaido Island”, “Hokkaidō Island”, “Ieso”, “Iesso”, “Jeso”, “Jesse”, “Jesso”, “Land of Iesso”, “Yaun Mosir”, “Yeso”, and “Yesso”
  • Category: island of Japan
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
43.5167° or 43° 31′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
142.4487° or 142° 26′ 55″ east
Population
5,500,000
Elevation
286 metres (938 feet)
Geo­Names ID
11257417
Wiki­data ID
Q35581
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hokkaido” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hokkaido”
  • Achinese: “Pulo Hokkaido”
  • Afrikaans: “Hokkaido”
  • Afrikaans: “Hokkaidō”
  • Albanian: “Hokaido”
  • Albanian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Amharic: “ሆካይዶ”
  • Arabic: “محافظة هوكايدو”
  • Arabic: “منطقة هوكايدو”
  • Arabic: “هوكايدو”
  • Aragonese: “Hokkaido”
  • Armenian: “Հոկայդո”
  • Assamese: “হোক্কাইডো”
  • Asturian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hokkaido”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hokkaydo”
  • Balinese: “Hokkaidō”
  • Bashkir: “Хоккайдо”
  • Basque: “Hokaido”
  • Basque: “Hokkaido”
  • Basque: “Hokkaidō”
  • Bavarian: “Hokkaido”
  • Belarusian: “востраў Хакайда”
  • Belarusian: “Хакайда”
  • Bengali: “হোক্কাইদো”
  • Bosnian: “Hokaido”
  • Bosnian: “Hokkaido”
  • Breton: “Hokkaido”
  • Breton: “Hokkaidō”
  • Bulgarian: “Билк”
  • Bulgarian: “Хокайдо”
  • Burmese: “ဟော့ကိုင်းဒိုး”
  • Burmese: “ဟော့ကိုင်းဒိုးကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Ezo”
  • Catalan: “Hokkai-dō”
  • Catalan: “Hokkaido”
  • Catalan: “Hokkaidō”
  • Catalan: “Mosir”
  • Catalan: “北海道”
  • Cebuano: “Hokkaido”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ھۆکایدۆ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھۆکایدۆ”
  • Central Okinawan: “ふっかいどぅう”
  • Central Okinawan: “北海道”
  • Chinese: “Hokkaidô”
  • Chinese: “北海道”
  • Chinese: “北海道地區”
  • Chinese: “北海道地方”
  • Chinese: “北海道岛”
  • Chinese: “北海道島”
  • Chinese: “虾夷岛”
  • Church Slavic: “Хоккаидо”
  • Croatian: “Hokkaido”
  • Croatian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Czech: “Hokkaido”
  • Czech: “Hokkaidó”
  • Danish: “Hokkaido”
  • Danish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Dutch: “Hokkaido”
  • Dutch: “Hokkaidō”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوكايدو”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Hokkajdo”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Hokkajdó”
  • Esperanto: “Guvernio Hokajdo”
  • Esperanto: “Hokajdo”
  • Esperanto: “Hokkaido”
  • Esperanto: “Hokkaidó”
  • Esperanto: “Hokkaidō”
  • Esperanto: “Hokkajdo”
  • Esperanto: “Hokkajdó”
  • Estonian: “Hokkaido”
  • Estonian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Faroese: “Hokkaido”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hokkaido”
  • Finnish: “Hokkaido”
  • Finnish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Finnish: “Mosir”
  • French: “Hokkaido”
  • French: “Hokkaidô”
  • French: “Hokkaidō”
  • French: “Hokkaïdo”
  • French: “Hokkaïdô”
  • French: “Hokkaidou”
  • French: “Iesso”
  • French: “Île de Hokkaido”
  • French: “Île Jeso”
  • French: “Matsumai”
  • French: “Matsumaï”
  • French: “Terre de Jesso”
  • French: “Yeso”
  • Galician: “Hokkaido”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Hokkaido”
  • Georgian: “ჰოკაიდო”
  • German: “Dosanko”
  • German: “Ezo-ga-shima”
  • German: “Ezochi”
  • German: “Ezogashima”
  • German: “Hokkaido”
  • German: “Hokkaidō”
  • German: “Mosir”
  • Greek: “Χοκάιντο”
  • Greek: “Χοκκάιντō”
  • Greek: “Χοκκάιντο”
  • Gujarati: “હોકૈડો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hokkaidō”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet-hói-tho”
  • Hausa: “Hokkaido”
  • Hawaiian: “Hokkaido”
  • Hebrew: “הוקאידו”
  • Hindi: “होकैडो”
  • Hindi: “होक्काइडो”
  • Hindi: “होक्काइदो द्वीप”
  • Hindi: “होक्काइदो”
  • Hungarian: “Hokkaido”
  • Hungarian: “Hokkaidó”
  • Iban: “Hokkaido”
  • Icelandic: “Hokkaido”
  • Icelandic: “Hokkaidō”
  • Icelandic: “Hokkaídó”
  • Ido: “Hokkaido”
  • Iloko: “Ezo”
  • Iloko: “Hokkaido”
  • Iloko: “Yeso”
  • Iloko: “Yesso”
  • Iloko: “Yezo”
  • Indonesian: “Hokkaido”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Hokkaido”
  • Interlingua: “Hokkaido”
  • Interlingue: “Hokkaidō”
  • Irish: “Hokkaido”
  • Irish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Italian: “Hokkaido”
  • Italian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Italian: “Isola di Hokkaido”
  • Italian: “Isola di Hokkaidō”
  • Japanese: “アイヌモシリ”
  • Japanese: “北海道”
  • Japanese: “北海道地方”
  • Japanese: “北海道島”
  • Japanese: “北海道本島”
  • Javanese: “Hokkaido”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊಕೈಡೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊಕ್ಕೈಡೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Хоккайдо”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់ហុកកៃដូ”
  • Khmer: “ហុកកៃដូ”
  • Kirghiz: “Хоккайдо”
  • Korean: “북해도”
  • Korean: “호까이도”
  • Korean: “호까이도오”
  • Korean: “혹가이도”
  • Korean: “혹까이도”
  • Korean: “홋까이도”
  • Korean: “홋카이도 섬”
  • Korean: “홋카이도 지방”
  • Korean: “홋카이도”
  • Korean: “홋카이섬”
  • Korean: “훗카이도”
  • Korean: “흣카이도”
  • Kurdish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Lao: “ຮອກໄກໂດ”
  • Latin: “Eso”
  • Latin: “Esonia”
  • Latin: “Hokkaido”
  • Latin: “Ieso”
  • Latin: “Iesse”
  • Latin: “Iesso”
  • Latvian: “Hokaido”
  • Latvian: “Hokkaido”
  • Literary Chinese: “北海道”
  • Lithuanian: “Hokaidas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hokaido regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hokaido sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Hokaido”
  • Lithuanian: “Hokkaido”
  • Macedonian: “Хокаидо”
  • Malay: “Hokkaido”
  • Malay: “Hokkaidō”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Hokkaidō”
  • Malayalam: “ഹൊക്കൈഡൊ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯣꯛꯀꯥꯢꯗꯣ”
  • Marathi: “होक्काइडो”
  • Marathi: “होक्काइदो”
  • Mazanderani: “هوکایدو جزیره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k-hāi-dô̤”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hokkaidō”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hokkaido”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hokkaidô”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hokkaidō”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-hái-tō”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰოკაიდო”
  • Mongolian: “Хоккайдо”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هوكايدو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هوكّايدو”
  • Nepali: “होक्काइडो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ezo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hokaido”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hokkaido”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hokkaidō”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yezo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hokkaido”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hokkaidō”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mosir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “北海道”
  • Norwegian: “Hokkaido”
  • Novial: “Hokkaido”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hokkaido”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hokkaidō”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mosir”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hokkaido”
  • Oriya: “ହୋକାଇଦୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Хоккайдо”
  • Pampanga: “Hokkaidō”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋੱਕਾਇਦੋ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Persian: “استان هوکایدو”
  • Persian: “ناحیه هوکایدو”
  • Persian: “هوکایدو”
  • Polish: “Hokkaido”
  • Polish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Portuguese: “Ezo”
  • Portuguese: “Hocaido”
  • Portuguese: “Hokaido”
  • Portuguese: “Hokkaido”
  • Portuguese: “Hokkaidō”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Hokkaido”
  • Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Hokkaido”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Hokkaido”
  • Pushto: “هوکایډو”
  • Quechua: “Hokkaido”
  • Romanian: “Insula Hokkaidō”
  • Romansh: “Hokkaido”
  • Romansh: “Hokkaidō”
  • Russian: “Hokkaido”
  • Russian: “Ватарисима”
  • Russian: “Иecco”
  • Russian: “Иеддо”
  • Russian: “Иедзо”
  • Russian: “Иессо”
  • Russian: “Мацумай”
  • Russian: “Мацумая”
  • Russian: “островъ Матмай”
  • Russian: “регион Хоккайдо”
  • Russian: “Хокайдо”
  • Russian: “Хоккайдо”
  • Russian: “Эдзо”
  • Samogitian: “Hokaids”
  • Samogitian: “Huokaids”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱳᱠᱠᱟᱭᱫᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hokkaido”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hokkaidō”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mosir”
  • Saterfriesisch: “北海道”
  • Scots: “Hokkaido”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hokkaidō”
  • Serbian: “Језо”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Хокаидо”
  • Serbian: “Хокаидо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hokaido”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hokkaido”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Silesian: “Hokkaido”
  • Sindhi: “هوڪائيڊو”
  • Sinhala: “හොක්කයිඩෝ”
  • Sinhala: “හොක්කයිදෝ”
  • Slovak: “Hokkaido”
  • Slovak: “Hokkaidó”
  • Slovenian: “Hokaido”
  • Slovenian: “Hokkaido”
  • Slovenian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Somali: “Hokkaido”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هوکایدو”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaido Japon”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaido Japón”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaidō Japon”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaidō Japón”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaido-”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaido”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaidô”
  • Spanish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Spanish: “Mosir”
  • Spanish: “Yeso”
  • Sundanese: “Hokkaidō region”
  • Sundanese: “Hokkaido”
  • Swahili: “Hokkaido”
  • Swahili: “Hokkaidō”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hokkaido”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hokkaidō”
  • Swedish: “Ezochi”
  • Swedish: “Ezoti”
  • Swedish: “Hokkaido”
  • Swedish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Swedish: “Hokkaidou”
  • Swedish: “Mosir”
  • Swedish: “Yezo”
  • Tagalog: “Hokkaido”
  • Tagalog: “Hokkaidō”
  • Tajik: “Хоккайдо”
  • Tamil: “ஒக்கைடோ”
  • Tamil: “ஹொக்கைடோ”
  • Tatar: “Хоккайдо”
  • Telugu: “హొక్కాయిడో”
  • Thai: “Hokkaido”
  • Thai: “เกาะฮกไกโด”
  • Thai: “เกาะฮอกไกโด”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฮกไกโด”
  • Thai: “ฮกไกโด”
  • Thai: “ฮอกไกโด”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ཁའི་དོ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ཁའི་དོ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Hokkaido”
  • Turkish: “Hokkaidō prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Hokkaido”
  • Turkish: “Hokkaidō”
  • Turkish: “Hokkaydo”
  • Uighur: “خوككايدو ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Земля Едзо”
  • Ukrainian: “острів Едзо”
  • Ukrainian: “острів Хоккайдо”
  • Ukrainian: “Хокайдо”
  • Ukrainian: “Хоккайдо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hokkaido”
  • Urdu: “ہوکائیدو”
  • Uzbek: “Xokkaydo”
  • Venetian: “Hokkaidō”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Hải Đạo”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Hokkaido”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Hokkaidō”
  • Vietnamese: “Hô-cai-đô”
  • Vietnamese: “Hokkaido”
  • Vietnamese: “Hokkaidō”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Hokkaido”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Hokkaido”
  • Võro: “Hokkaido”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hokkaido”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hokkaidō”
  • Welsh: “Hokkaido”
  • Welsh: “Hokkaidō”
  • Western Frisian: “Hokkaido”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوکائیڈو”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوکیڈو”
  • Wu Chinese: “北海道”
  • Yiddish: “האקיידא”
  • Yue Chinese: “北海道”
  • Yue Chinese: “北海道島”
  • “Hokaids”
  • “Hokkaido”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hokkaido”. Photo: Jrballe, CC BY-SA 3.0.