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Hachirōgata

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Also known as Hachirogata, Lake Hachiro

thumb|Plans for the creation of the lagoon designed by Pieter Philippus Jansen is a lake in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan. Its formal name is , but it is also called . At 4 meters below sea level, Hachirōgata is the lowest natural point in Japan.

Key facts

Lake.name
Hachirōgata
Lake.image
Oga Peninsula and Hachirogata Akita Japan SRTM.jpg
Lake.caption
Satellite image of Hachirōgata (at right). The lake is entirely reclaimed except the south-east corner and the narrow watercourse surrounding the reclaimed land. Oga Peninsula is in the left.
Lake.location
Akita Prefecture
Lake.type
lake
Lake.basin_countries
Japan
Lake.pushpin_map
Japan
Lake.pushpin_map_alt
Location of Hachirōgata in Japan.

via Wikipedia infobox

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thumb|Plans for the creation of the lagoon designed by Pieter Philippus Jansen is a lake in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan. Its formal name is , but it is also called . At 4 meters below sea level, Hachirōgata is the lowest natural point in Japan.

Hachirōgata was the second-largest lake in Japan after Lake Biwa. Extensive reclamation began in 1957 for crop production, and Ōgata village was established on the reclaimed land on October 1, 1964. The remaining lake has an area of (18th largest in Japan).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hachirōgata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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