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, Akitsugu Konno, and Sayaka Kanda. Sapporo has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and athletes. Sapporo is located in Japan.

Sapporo is a designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture. As of July 31, 2023, the city has a population of 1,959,750, making it the largest city in Hokkaido and the largest north of Tokyo. It is the fifth-most populous city in Japan and is Hokkaido's cultural, economic, and political center. Read more on Wikipedia