Samani
Samani is a town of 4,400 people in Hidaka, Hokkaido. The entire area is designated as a Global Geopark by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as Mt. Apoi Geopark.
- Type: Town with 4,040 residents
- Description: town in Samani district, Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as: “Honcho”, “Honchō”, “Samanai”, “Samani, Hokkaido”, “Shamani”, “Syamani”, “Utoma”, and “様似村”
Samani
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Samani district, Central Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42.1277° or 42° 7′ 40″ north
Longitude
142.934° or 142° 56′ 3″ east
Population
4,040
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP SAM
Open location code
8RJ44WHM+3J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Samani” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساماني”
- Asturian: “Samani”
- Bosnian: “Samani”
- Burmese: “ဆမနိမြို့၊ ဟော့ကိုင်းဒိုး”
- Catalan: “Samani”
- Cebuano: “Samani Chō”
- Chinese: “样似町”
- Chinese: “樣似”
- Chinese: “樣似町”
- Czech: “Samani”
- Dutch: “Samani”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سامانى”
- French: “Samani”
- German: “Samani”
- Hungarian: “Szamani”
- Ido: “Samani, Hokkaido”
- Ido: “Samani”
- Indonesian: “Samani, Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Samani”
- Irish: “Samani”
- Italian: “Samani”
- Japanese: “Samani-chō”
- Japanese: “さまにちょう”
- Japanese: “ほんちょう”
- Japanese: “ホンチョウ”
- Japanese: “本町”
- Japanese: “様似町”
- Korean: “사마니정”
- Korean: “사마니초”
- Malay: “Samani, Hokkaidō”
- Malay: “Samani”
- Persian: “سمنی، هوکایدو”
- Persian: “سمنی”
- Polish: “Samani”
- Portuguese: “Samani”
- Russian: “Самани”
- Spanish: “Samani”
- Swedish: “Samani”
- Thai: “ซามานิ”
- Turkish: “Samani”
- Ukrainian: “Самані”
- Urdu: “سامانی، ہوکائیڈو”
- Vietnamese: “Samani, Hokkaidō”
- Vietnamese: “Samani”
- Yue Chinese: “樣似町”
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