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Hokkaido
Central Circuit

Sapporo

Sapporo is the capital and largest city of the northern island of . One of Japan's newest and most orderly cities, it has little in the way of traditional architecture.
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  • Type: City with 1,970,000 residents
  • Description: city on Hokkaido, Japan
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Odori Park.

Government office
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The Central Circuit covers the western and central parts of the northern island of .

Park
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is a park located in the heart of Sapporo, , Japan. Ōdōri means "large street" in Japanese. It stretches east to west through Nishi 1 chōme, Ōdōri to Nishi 12 chōme, Ōdōri, and divides the city into north and south sections.

Museum
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is a wooden structure and tourist attraction located at North 1 West 2, , the largest city on the island of Hokkaidō, Japan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kita-ku and Higashi-ku.

Suburb
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is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas.

Suburb
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is one of the 10 wards in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, . It is directly translated as "east ward", and is neighboured to , , , Ebetsu, Tōbetsu.

Suburb
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is one of the ten wards in Sapporo, , . means "central ward" in Japanese. City administration and entertainment facilities are centred in this ward.

Sapporo

Latitude
43.0619° or 43° 3′ 43″ north
Longitude
141.3543° or 141° 21′ 16″ east
Population
1,970,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
SPK
United Nations Location Code
JP SPK
Open location code
8RM33963+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 57683926
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2128295
Wiki­data ID
Q37951
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zeeuws—“Sapporo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sapporo”
  • Adyghe: “Саппоро”
  • Afrikaans: “Sapporo”
  • Amharic: “ሳፖሮ”
  • Arabic: “سابورو”
  • Aragonese: “Sapporo”
  • Armenian: “Սապորո”
  • Asturian: “Sapporo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sapporo”
  • Balinese: “Sapporo”
  • Bambara: “Sapporo”
  • Bashkir: “Саппоро”
  • Basque: “Sapporo”
  • Belarusian: “Сапара (Хакайда)”
  • Belarusian: “Сапара”
  • Bengali: “সাপ্পোরো”
  • Bosnian: “Sapporo”
  • Breton: “Sapporo”
  • Bulgarian: “Сапоро”
  • Catalan: “Sapporo”
  • Cebuano: “Sapporo (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)”
  • Cebuano: “Sapporo-shi”
  • Chamorro: “Sapporo”
  • Chechen: “Саппоро”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᏉᏬ”
  • Cheyenne: “Sapporo”
  • Chinese: “Sapporo-chhī”
  • Chinese: “札幌”
  • Chinese: “札幌區”
  • Chinese: “札幌市”
  • Cree: “ᓴᐳᐅ”
  • Croatian: “Sapporo”
  • Czech: “Sapporo”
  • Danish: “Sapporo”
  • Dutch: “Sapporo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساپورو”
  • Erzya: “Саппоро”
  • Esperanto: “Saporo”
  • Esperanto: “Sapporo”
  • Estonian: “Sapporo”
  • Ewe: “Sapporo”
  • Faroese: “Sapporo”
  • Finnish: “Sapporo, Japan”
  • Finnish: “Sapporo”
  • French: “Sapporo”
  • Galician: “Sapporo”
  • Ganda: “Sapporo”
  • Georgian: “საპორო”
  • German: “Sapporo”
  • German: “札幌市”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌰𐍀𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌿”
  • Greek: “Σαπόρο”
  • Greek: “Σαππόρο”
  • Gujarati: “સાપોરો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sapporo-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sapporo”
  • Hawaiian: “Sapporo”
  • Hebrew: “סאפורו”
  • Hebrew: “ספורו”
  • Hindi: “सपोरो”
  • Hindi: “साप्पोरो”
  • Hungarian: “Sapporo”
  • Hungarian: “Szapporo”
  • Hungarian: “Szapporó”
  • Icelandic: “Sapporo”
  • Ido: “Sapporo”
  • Iloko: “Sapporo”
  • Indonesian: “Sapporo”
  • Interlingue: “Sapporo”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓴᑉᐳᕈ”
  • Inupiaq: “Sapporo”
  • Irish: “Sapporo”
  • Italian: “Sapporo”
  • Japanese: “Sapporo-shi”
  • Japanese: “Sapporoshi”
  • Japanese: “サツホロ”
  • Japanese: “さっぽろ”
  • Japanese: “サッポロ”
  • Japanese: “さっぽろし”
  • Japanese: “サッポロシ”
  • Japanese: “シヤツホロ”
  • Japanese: “札幌”
  • Japanese: “札幌区”
  • Japanese: “札幌市”
  • Japanese: “道都”
  • Javanese: “Sapporo”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sapporo”
  • Kannada: “ಸಪ್ಪೋರೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಪ್ಪೋರೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Саппоро”
  • Kikuyu: “Sapporo”
  • Korean: “삽뽀로 시”
  • Korean: “삽뽀로”
  • Korean: “삿뽀로”
  • Korean: “삿포로 시”
  • Korean: “삿포로”
  • Korean: “삿포로시”
  • Latin: “Sapporia”
  • Latin: “Sapporo”
  • Latin: “Sapporum”
  • Latvian: “Saporo”
  • Latvian: “Sapporo”
  • Literary Chinese: “札幌市”
  • Lithuanian: “Saporas”
  • Lithuanian: “Saporo”
  • Lithuanian: “Sapporo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sapporo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sapporo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sapporo”
  • Macedonian: “Сапоро”
  • Malagasy: “Sapporo”
  • Malay: “Sapporo”
  • Malayalam: “സാപ്പൊറൊ”
  • Maltese: “Sapporo”
  • Maori: “Sapporo”
  • Marathi: “सप्पोरो”
  • Mazanderani: “ساپورو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sapporo-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sapporo”
  • Mingrelian: “საპორო”
  • Mongolian: “Саппоро”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sapporo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sapporo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sapporo-shi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sapporo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “札幌市”
  • Norwegian: “Sapporo”
  • Novial: “Sapporo”
  • Nyanja: “Sapporo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sapporo”
  • Ossetian: “Саппоро”
  • Persian: “ساپورو، هوکایدو”
  • Persian: “ساپورو”
  • Picard: “Sapporo”
  • Piemontese: “Sapporo”
  • Polish: “Sapporo”
  • Pontic: “Σαππόρο”
  • Portuguese: “Saporo”
  • Portuguese: “Sapporo”
  • Quechua: “Sapporo”
  • Romanian: “Sapporo”
  • Russia Buriat: “Саппоро”
  • Russian: “Саппоро Хоккайдо”
  • Russian: “Саппоро, Хоккайдо”
  • Russian: “Саппоро”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱯᱯᱳᱨᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Sapporo”
  • Serbian: “Sapporo”
  • Serbian: “Сапоро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saporo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sapporo”
  • Silesian: “Sapporo”
  • Sindhi: “ساپورو”
  • Sinhala: “සැපොරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Sapporo”
  • Slovenian: “Saporo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساپورو”
  • Spanish: “Sapporo Hokkaido”
  • Spanish: “Sapporo Hokkaidō”
  • Spanish: “Sapporo”
  • Spanish: “札幌市”
  • Sundanese: “Sapporo”
  • Swahili: “Sapporo, Hokkaido”
  • Swahili: “Sapporo”
  • Swati: “ISapporo”
  • Swedish: “Sapporo, Japan”
  • Swedish: “Sapporo”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Sapporo”
  • Tagalog: “Sapporo”
  • Tajik: “Саппоро”
  • Tamil: “சப்போரோ”
  • Tatar: “Саппоро”
  • Telugu: “సపోరో”
  • Thai: “ซัปโปโร”
  • Thai: “ซัปโปโระ”
  • Thai: “ซัปโปะโระ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Sapporo, Japan”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Sapporo”
  • Tswana: “Sapporo”
  • Tumbuka: “Sapporo”
  • Turkish: “Sapporo”
  • Turkmen: “Sapporo”
  • Twi: “Sapporo”
  • Ukrainian: “Саппоро”
  • Urdu: “ساپورو”
  • Uzbek: “Sapporo”
  • Venetian: “Saporo”
  • Venetian: “Sapporo”
  • Veps: “Sapporo”
  • Vietnamese: “Sapporo”
  • Volapük: “Sapporo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sapporo”
  • Welsh: “Sapporo”
  • Western Frisian: “Sapporo”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیپورو”
  • Wolof: “Sapporo”
  • Wu Chinese: “札幌市”
  • Yakut: “Саппоро”
  • Yue Chinese: “Sapporo”
  • Yue Chinese: “さっぽろ”
  • Yue Chinese: “さっぽろし”
  • Yue Chinese: “札幌”
  • Yue Chinese: “札幌市”
  • Zeeuws: “Sapporo”
  • “ma tomo Sapolo”
  • “Sapporo”

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