Sapporo (jpn)

Sapporo

Sapporo ranks 177th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Auckland, Bordeaux, and Brisbane. Memorable people born in Sapporo include Satoshi Kon, Satoru Iwata, and Miyuki Nakajima. Memorable people who died in Sapporo include Shigeru Kayano, Sayaka Kanda, and Akitsugu Konno. Sapporo has been the birth place of many soccer players and singers and the death place of many politicians and actors. Sapporo is located in Japan.

Sapporo is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city in Japan. 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