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Sakai

second largest and populated city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Summary

Sakai is a city designated by government ordinance[1]. Sakai draws 6,214 Wikipedia views per month (city designated by government ordinance category, ranking #20 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Union of Kansai Governments[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Osaka Prefecture[4]
  • Country: Japan[5]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Osaka Bay[6], Yamato River[7], Ishizu River[8], Kōmyō Pond[9]
  • Head of government: Hideki Nagafuji[10]
  • Continent: Asia[11]
  • Instance of: big city[12], city of Japan[13], satellite city[14], commuter town[15]
  • Shares border with: Osaka[16], Matsubara[17], Habikino[18], Tondabayashi[19], Osakasayama[20], Kawachinagano[21], Izumi[22], Takaishi[23]
  • Anthem: Sakai Shimin no Uta[24], 堺市歌[25]
  • Named after: Sakai[26]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Sakai-ku[27], Naka-ku[28], Higashi-ku[29], Nishi-ku[30], Minami-ku[31], Kita-ku[32], Mihara-ku[33]
  • Twinned administrative body: Wellington City[34], Berkeley[35], Lianyungang[36], Da Nang[37], Nishinoomote[38], Nakatane[39], Minamitane[40], Higashiyoshino[41], Tanabe[42]
  • Legislative body: Sakai City Council[43]
  • Postal code: 590-0078[44]
  • Part of: Senboku[45], Osaka metropolitan area[46], Keihanshin[47]
  • Commons category: Sakai[48]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+09:00[49]
  • Local dialing code: 72[50]
  • Inception: April 1, 1889[51]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Osaka Plain[52]
  • Significant event: Sakai incident[53]
  • Official website: https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/[54], https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/english/visitors/[55], https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/chinese/visitors/[56], https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/korean/visitors/[57], https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/other_languages/[58], https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/yasashii/[59]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sakai, Osaka[60]
  • Population: 827,277[61], 824,408[62], 839,310[63], 841,966[64]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Sakai include Pseudideonella sakaiensis[65], a taxon[66].

Why It Matters

Sakai has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[67] Sakai is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[68]

Entities named for Sakai include Pseudideonella sakaiensis[65], a taxon[66].

Related Entities

Akiko Yosano Asahi Breweries Asuna Tanaka Da Nang Hagoromo International University Japan Kantarō Suzuki Kenzō Tange Mizuho Sakaguchi Osaka Women's University Poole Gakuin University Sakai Sen no Rikyū Shimano

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [4] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
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  58. [60] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  59. [61] ↑ . pref.osaka.lg.jp. pref.osaka.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  60. [62] ↑ . pref.osaka.lg.jp. pref.osaka.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  61. [63] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  62. [64] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [65] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [66] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [67] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [68] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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