Sakata

Sakata is a city in . Due to its location on the Sea of Japan, the city has a large fishing industry. There is a fish market and many seafood restaurants, where one can enjoy freshly caught fish from the Sea of Japan.
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: city in Yamagata prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Sakata Shi”, “Sakata, Yamagata”, and “酒田町”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Sakata Station and Homma Museum.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the city…

Museum
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of Art opened in Sakata, , Japan, in 1947.

Museum
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The was opened in 1983…

Sakata

Latitude
38.9147° or 38° 54′ 53″ north
Longitude
139.8364° or 139° 50′ 11″ east
Population
100,000
IATA airport code
SYO
UN/LOCODE
JP SKT
Open location code
8QCXWR7P+VH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1853140
Wiki­data ID
Q504690
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sakata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساكاتا، ياماغاتا”
  • Arabic: “ساكاتا”
  • Armenian: “Սակատա”
  • Asturian: “Sakata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sakata”
  • Bashkir: “Саката (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Саката”
  • Basque: “Sakata (Yamagata)”
  • Basque: “Sakata”
  • Belarusian: “Саката”
  • Bengali: “সাকাতা”
  • Catalan: “Sakata”
  • Cebuano: “Sakata”
  • Chechen: “Саката (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Саката”
  • Chinese: “酒田市”
  • Czech: “Sakata”
  • Danish: “Sakata”
  • Dutch: “Sakata”
  • Esperanto: “Sakata”
  • Estonian: “Sakata”
  • Finnish: “Sakata”
  • French: “Sakata”
  • Galician: “Sakata”
  • German: “Sakata”
  • Greek: “Σακάτα”
  • Gujarati: “સકતા”
  • Hindi: “सकाता”
  • Hungarian: “Szakata”
  • Indonesian: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Indonesian: “Sakata”
  • Irish: “Sakata”
  • Italian: “Sakata”
  • Japanese: “Sakata-shi”
  • Japanese: “さかたし”
  • Japanese: “酒田”
  • Japanese: “酒田市”
  • Kannada: “ಸಕಟಾ”
  • Korean: “사카타 시”
  • Korean: “사카타시”
  • Latvian: “Sakata”
  • Lingala: “Sakata”
  • Literary Chinese: “酒田市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sakata”
  • Malay: “Sakata”
  • Marathi: “साकाता”
  • Mazanderani: “ساکاتا، یاماگاتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sakata-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakata”
  • Norwegian: “Sakata”
  • Persian: “ساکاتا، یاماگاتا”
  • Persian: “ساکاتا”
  • Polish: “Sakata”
  • Portuguese: “Sakata”
  • Romanian: “Sakata”
  • Russian: “Саката”
  • Serbian: “Sakata”
  • Serbian: “Саката”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sakata”
  • Silesian: “Sakata”
  • Sinhala: “සකටා”
  • Slovak: “Sakata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساکاتا، یاماقاتا”
  • Spanish: “Sakata”
  • Swedish: “Sakata”
  • Tagalog: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Sakata”
  • Tajik: “Sakata”
  • Tajik: “Саката”
  • Tamil: “சகாடா”
  • Tatar: “Саката”
  • Telugu: “సకాత”
  • Thai: “ซากาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Sakata”
  • Ukrainian: “Саката”
  • Urdu: “ساکاتا، یاماگاٹا”
  • Urdu: “سکھاتا”
  • Uzbek: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Uzbek: “Sakata”
  • Venetian: “Sakata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sakata”
  • Welsh: “Sakata-shi”
  • Yue Chinese: “酒田”

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