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Saitama

Saitama is the capital of Saitama prefecture in the region of . It came into existence after the merging of 4 former cities, including Urawa, the former capital, in 2001.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kita-Urawa and Urawa Komaba Stadium.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station on the Keihin-Tohoku Line in , , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Stadium
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The is an athletic in , Saitama, . It accommodates 21,500 spectators. It was formerly known as Saitama . Since May 2012, it has been called .

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station on the Saikyō Line in , Saitama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Minami and Urawa-ku.

Suburb
Photo: ainosuke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Minami-ku is one of ten wards of the city of Saitama, in , , and is located in the southern part of the city. As of 1 March 2021, the ward had an estimated population of 192,143 and a population density of 14,000 persons per km².

Suburb
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Urawa is one of ten wards of the city of Saitama, in , . Located in the northeast of the city, Urawa is the governmental center of Saitama and houses most of the city's administrative offices including the city hall, as well as the offices of government.

Suburb
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is one of ten wards of the city of Saitama, in , , and is located in the southeastern part of the city. As of 1 March 2021, the ward had an estimated population of 129,705 and a population density of 4,900 persons per km2.

Saitama

Latitude
35.8616° or 35° 51′ 42″ north
Longitude
139.6458° or 139° 38′ 45″ east
Population
1,180,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP STM
Open location code
8Q7XVJ6W+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243993095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6940394
Wiki­data ID
Q134635
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saitama” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Saitama”
  • Arabic: “سائيتاما”
  • Arabic: “سايتاما، سايتاما”
  • Arabic: “سايتاما”
  • Armenian: “Սայտամա”
  • Asturian: “Saitama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saytama”
  • Balinese: “Kota Saitama”
  • Basque: “Saitama”
  • Belarusian: “Сайтама”
  • Bengali: “সাইতামা”
  • Breton: “Kêr Saitama”
  • Breton: “Saitama”
  • Bulgarian: “Сайтама”
  • Catalan: “Saitama”
  • Cebuano: “Saitama-shi”
  • Chechen: “Сайтама”
  • Chinese: “Saitama-chhī”
  • Chinese: “さいたま市”
  • Chinese: “埼玉”
  • Chinese: “埼玉市”
  • Chinese: “琦玉市”
  • Croatian: “Saitama”
  • Czech: “Saitama”
  • Danish: “Saitama”
  • Dutch: “Saitama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سايتاما”
  • Esperanto: “Saitama (angle)”
  • Esperanto: “Saitama”
  • Esperanto: “Sajtama”
  • Estonian: “Saitama”
  • Faroese: “Saitama”
  • Finnish: “Saitama”
  • French: “Saitama”
  • Galician: “Saitama”
  • German: “Saitama”
  • German: “Stadt 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”
  • Japanese: “のびのびシティ”
  • Japanese: “埼玉市”
  • Kannada: “ಸೈತಮಾ”
  • Kikuyu: “Saitama”
  • Kirghiz: “Сайтама”
  • Korean: “사이다마”
  • Korean: “사이타마시”
  • Latin: “Saitama”
  • Latvian: “Saitama”
  • Literary Chinese: “埼玉市”
  • Lithuanian: “Saitama”
  • Lithuanian: “Saitamos miestas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Saitama”
  • Macedonian: “Саитама”
  • Macedonian: “Сајтама”
  • Malagasy: “Saitama”
  • Malay: “Saitama”
  • Malayalam: “സൈതാമാ”
  • Maori: “Saitama”
  • Marathi: “साईटामा”
  • 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 (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Сайтамæ”
  • Persian: “سایتاما، سایتاما”
  • Persian: “سایتاما”
  • Piemontese: “Saitama”
  • Polish: “Saitama”
  • Portuguese: “Saitama”
  • Quechua: “Saitama”
  • Romanian: “Saitama”
  • Russian: “Саитама Саитама”
  • Russian: “Саитама Сайтама”
  • Russian: “Саитама, Сайтама”
  • Russian: “Саитама”
  • Russian: “Сайтама Саитама”
  • Russian: “Сайтама, Сайтама”
  • Russian: “Сайтама”
  • Sardinian: “Saitama”
  • Scots: “Saitama Ceety”
  • Scots: “Saitama”
  • Serbian: “Saitama”
  • Serbian: “Саитама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saitama”
  • Silesian: “Saitama”
  • Sinhala: “සයිටාමා”
  • Slovak: “Saitama”
  • Slovenian: “Saitama”
  • Slovenian: “Sajtama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سایتاما”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Saitama”
  • Spanish: “Saitama”
  • Sundanese: “Saitama, Saitama”
  • Sundanese: “Saitama”
  • Swahili: “Saitama, Saitama”
  • Swahili: “Saitama”
  • Swedish: “Saitama”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Saitama”
  • Tagalog: “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”
  • “Saitama-shi”

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