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Kita is a special ward (administrative division) located in Tokyo, Japan's capital city. It matters as one of the 23 special wards that make up central Tokyo and serves as a residential and administrative area for the city.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative territorial entity
- Part of
- Tokyo
- Named after
- north
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Tokyo
- Population
- 335544
- Area
- 20.61
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Body of water
- Sumida River
- Shares border with
- Toda
- Official website
- www.city.kita.tokyo.jp
- Image
- Asukayama Park.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kita, Tokyo
- topic's main category
- Category:Kita, Tokyo
- inception
- 1947-03-15
- name in kana
- きたく
- twinned administrative body
- Sakata
- social media followers
- 13210
- external data available at URL
- www.city.kita.tokyo.jp/koho/opendata/kitakuopendata.html
- official symbol
- Rhododendron
- native label
- 北区
- associated electoral district
- Tokyo 12th district
- number of viewers/listeners
- 480740
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Encyclopedic overview
Kita (北区, Kita-ku; "Northern ward") is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is City of Kita. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.
As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 340,287, and a population density of 16,510 persons per km. The total area is 20.61 km.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.