Hokkaidō
Hokkaidō (北海道, Hokkaidō), also known as Ezo and Yezo, is a volcanic island in Japan. It is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands.[1]
Hokkaidō Prefecture covers the entire island.[2]
About 5,224,614 people live on the island.[3] It is north of Honshu. Hokkaidō is the second largest Japanese island.[4] It has a humid continental climate (Dfa/Dfb in the Köppen climate classification) with cold snowy winters and warm to hot summers.
Agriculture is an important part of the island's economy.
Regions
Hokkaidō region is one of Japan's traditional geographic regions.[5]
The region covers the entire island.[1] The island and the region have been called Hokkaidō since 1869.[4]
Hokkaidō Media
- Former government office, Hokkaido.JPG
- 17世紀アイヌ地図.png
A map of Ainu groups around the time of Shakushain's Revolt (1669–1672)
- Samurai and Ainu Fuzoku Ema.jpg
The samurai and the Ainu, c. 1775
- Matumae Takahiro.jpg
Matsumae Takahiro, a Matsumae lord of the late Edo period (December 10, 1829 – June 9, 1866)
- Hakodate Goryokaku Panorama 1.JPG
The Goryōkaku fort in Hakodate
- Ainu old man circa 1930.JPG
The Ainu, Hokkaido's indigenous people
- Satellite image of Hokkaido, Japan in January 2003.jpg
Satellite image of Hokkaido in winter, January 2003
- Hokkaido Season Winter Summer 2008.png
Hokkaido in winter and summer
- Large map of Hokkaido within Japan.png
A map of Hokkaido showing the pre-2010 subprefectures and the primary cities
Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Library of Congress Country Studies, Japan (LOC), "Geographic Regions, Hokkaido". Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ↑ Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Hokkaido Prefecture, Regional Information Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002). "Hokkaido" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 343.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Geography" at p. 242.
Other websites
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