Saitama
Saitama is the capital of Saitama prefecture in the Kanto region of Japan. But as the bonsai capital of the world and home to one of Japan's best railway museums, Saitama has more to impress visitors than it's given credit for.
- Type: City with 1,180,000 residents
- Description: city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ciudad de Saitama”, “Kêr Saitama”, “Saitama (angle)”, “Saitama Ceety”, “Saitama City”, “Saitamos miestas”, “Stadt Saitama”, “Thành phố Saitama”, “Саитама Саитама”, “Саитама Сайтама”, “Саитама, Сайтама”, “Сайтамæ (сахар)”, “Сайтама Саитама”, “Сайтама, Сайтама”, “سائيتاما”, “سایتاما، سایتاما”, and “साईटामा”
- Neighbors: Ageo, Asaka, Kasukabe, Kawagoe, Kawaguchi, and Koshigaya
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kita-Urawa and Minami-Yono.
Urawa Komaba Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minami and Urawa-ku.
Saitama
- Categories: city designated by government ordinance, prefectural capital of Japan, satellite city, big city, city of Japan, city for international conferences and tourism, educational town, de facto national capital, and locality
- Location: Saitama, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.8616° or 35° 51′ 42″ north
Longitude
139.6456° or 139° 38′ 44″ east
Population
1,180,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP STM
Open location code
8Q7XVJ6W+J6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saitama” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saitama”
- Arabic: “سايتاما”
- Aragonese: “Saitama”
- Armenian: “Սայտամա”
- Asturian: “Saitama”
- Azerbaijani: “Saytama”
- Balinese: “Kota Saitama”
- Basque: “Saitama”
- Belarusian: “Сайтама”
- Bengali: “সাইতামা”
- Breton: “Saitama”
- Bulgarian: “Сайтама”
- Catalan: “Saitama”
- Cebuano: “Saitama-shi”
- Chechen: “Сайтама”
- Chinese: “埼玉”
- Chinese: “埼玉市”
- Croatian: “Saitama”
- Czech: “Saitama”
- Danish: “Saitama”
- Dutch: “Saitama”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سايتاما”
- Esperanto: “Saitama”
- Esperanto: “Sajtama”
- Estonian: “Saitama”
- Faroese: “Saitama”
- Fijian: “Saitama”
- Finnish: “Saitama”
- French: “Saitama”
- Galician: “Saitama”
- German: “Saitama”
- Greek: “Σαϊτάμα”
- Gujarati: “સૈતામા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Saitama-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “סאיטאמה”
- Hindi: “साइतामा”
- Hindi: “सैतामा शहर”
- Hungarian: “Szaitama”
- Indonesian: “Kota Saitama”
- Indonesian: “Saitama”
- Interlingue: “Saitama”
- Irish: “Saitama”
- Italian: “Saitama”
- Japanese: “Saitama-shi”
- Japanese: “さいたま”
- Japanese: “さいたまし”
- Japanese: “さいたま市”
- Kannada: “ಸೈತಮಾ”
- Kikuyu: “Saitama”
- Kirghiz: “Сайтама”
- Korean: “사이다마”
- Korean: “사이타마시”
- Latin: “Saitama”
- Latvian: “Saitama”
- Literary Chinese: “埼玉市”
- Lithuanian: “Saitama”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Saitama”
- Macedonian: “Сајтама”
- Malagasy: “Saitama”
- Malay: “Saitama”
- Malayalam: “സൈതാമാ”
- Maori: “Saitama”
- Marathi: “सैतामा”
- Mazanderani: “سایتاما”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saitama-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Сайтама”
- Northern Frisian: “Saitama”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saitama”
- Norwegian: “Saitama”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saitama”
- Ossetian: “Сайтамæ”
- Persian: “سایتاما”
- Piemontese: “Saitama”
- Polish: “Saitama”
- Portuguese: “Saitama”
- Quechua: “Saitama”
- Romanian: “Saitama”
- Russian: “Саитама”
- Russian: “Сайтама”
- Sardinian: “Saitama”
- Scots: “Saitama”
- Serbian: “Saitama”
- Serbian: “Саитама”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saitama”
- Silesian: “Saitama”
- Sinhala: “සයිටාමා”
- Slovak: “Saitama”
- Slovenian: “Saitama”
- South Azerbaijani: “سایتاما”
- Spanish: “Saitama”
- Sundanese: “Saitama, Saitama”
- Sundanese: “Saitama”
- Swahili: “Saitama, Saitama”
- Swahili: “Saitama”
- Swedish: “Saitama”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Saitama”
- Tajik: “Saitama”
- Tajik: “Саитама”
- Tamil: “சாய்டாமா”
- Tatar: “Сайтама”
- Telugu: “సైటామా”
- Thai: “ไซตามะ”
- Tumbuka: “Saitama”
- Turkish: “Saitama”
- Ukrainian: “Сайтама”
- Urdu: “سائیتاما”
- Vietnamese: “Saitama”
- Vietnamese: “thành phố Saitama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saitama”
- Welsh: “Saitama”
- Wu Chinese: “埼玉市”
- Yue Chinese: “埼玉市”
- “ma tomo Satama”
- “Saitama-shi”
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Saitama: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Kawagoe and Kasukabe.
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