Sapporo (jpn)

Sapporo

Sapporo ranks 206th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Heidelberg, Haarlem, and Kingston, Jamaica. Memorable people born in Sapporo include Satoshi Kon, Satoru Iwata, and Miyuki Nakajima. Memorable people who died in Sapporo include Shigeru Kayano, Yukio Kasaya, and Akitsugu Konno. Sapporo has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and skiers. Sapporo is located in Japan.

Sapporo is a city in Japan. It is the largest in northern Japan and the largest city in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city in Japan with 1,959,750 residents as of July 31, 2023. It is the capital city of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture. Sapporo lies in the southwest of Hokkaido, within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, which is a tributary stream of the Ishikari. It is considered the cultural, economic, and political center of Hokkaido. Read more on Wikipedia