Otobe

town in Nishi district, Hokkaido, Japan

Place town_of_japan Q1354219

Facts

19 properties

Instance of: town of Japan
Inception: April 1, 1902, October 1, 1965^[8]^[9]
Country: Japan^[3]
Official website: www.town.otobe.lg.jp^[10]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 41.968°, 140.136°
Area: +162.59^[17]
Associated electoral district: Hokkaido 8th district^[18]
Coordinates of easternmost point: 🗺️ 42.047°, 140.280°
Coordinates of northernmost point: 🗺️ 42.094°, 140.221°
Coordinates of southernmost point: 🗺️ 41.953°, 140.132°
Coordinates of westernmost point: 🗺️ 42.059°, 140.070°
Legal form: ordinary local public entity^[15]
Located in or next to body of water: Sea of Japan^[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nishi district^[2]
Name in kana: おとべちょう^[16]
Official name: 乙部村, 乙部町^[14]
P14812: 01364A1968^[19]
Population: 4.4k (3.5k–4.4k, n=3)^[11]^[12]^[13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,520 · 3,906 · 4,408 GeoNames 4,186 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with: Esashi, Assabu, Yakumo^[5]^[6]^[7]

🏷️ Also known as

en Otobe ar أوتوبه fa اوتوبه، هوکایدو ja 乙部町 ja 乙部村 ko 오토베정 ru Отобе ru Отобэ th โอโตเบะ

🔖 Identifiers · 18

VIAF cluster ID: 134879452
Library of Congress authority ID: n81099752
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Otobe town hall.JPG ↗
Corporate Number (Japan): 1000020013641
Dantai code: 013641
Freebase ID: /m/0519kf
GNS Unique Feature ID: -241306
GeoLOD ID: NENBWg
GeoNLP ID (obsolete): XvQNZf
GeoNames ID: 2128565
INaturalist place ID: 33822
NDL Authority ID: 00297395

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National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007552757205171
OpenCorporates ID: jp/1000020013641
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 4088012
Topic's main category: Category:Otobe, Hokkaido
Who's on First ID: 102032309
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJmhTvPy8DwgfrdXWpwKVC

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🔗 Connections

Shares border with 3

Esashi, Yakumo, Assabu

← Shares border with 3

Esashi, Yakumo, Assabu

Associated electoral district 1

Hokkaido 8th district

Country 1

Japan

Instance of 1

town of Japan

Located in or next to body of water 1

Sea of Japan

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Nishi district

Located in time zone 1

UTC+09:00

Topic's main category 1

Category:Otobe, Hokkaido

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Category:Otobe, Hokkaido

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Nishi district

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Summary

Otobe is a town of Japan^[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Otobe — country (P17): Japan. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Otobe — shares border with (P47): Esashi. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Otobe — shares border with (P47): Assabu. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Otobe — shares border with (P47): Yakumo. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Otobe — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Nishi district. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Otobe — located in or next to body of water (P206): Sea of Japan. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Otobe — inception (P571): April 1, 1902. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Otobe — inception (P571): October 1, 1965. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Otobe — official website (P856): https://www.town.otobe.lg.jp/. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Otobe — population (P1082): 3520. pref.hokkaido.lg.jp. Retrieved 2021-02-12. pref.hokkaido.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Otobe — population (P1082): 3906. e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-17. e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Otobe — population (P1082): 4408. e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-17. e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Otobe — official name (P1448): 乙部町. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Otobe — legal form (P1454): ordinary local public entity. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Otobe — name in kana (P1814): おとべちょう. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Otobe — area (P2046): 162.59 km². gsi.go.jp. gsi.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Otobe — associated electoral district (P7938): Hokkaido 8th district. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Otobe — P14812 (P14812): 01364A1968. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Otobe is an instance of town of Japan (Q1059478) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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10w ago · Kugelschreibers · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14812 → 01364A1968

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12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Located in time zone → —

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