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The historical suffix 道 translates to "prefecture" in English, ambiguously the same as 府 for Osaka and Kyoto, and 県 (-ken) for the rest of the "prefectures". Dō , as shorthand, can be used to uniquely identify Hokkaido, for example as in 道道 ( dōdō , "Hokkaido road") [ 16 ] or 道議会 ( Dōgikai , " Hokkaido Assembly "), [ 17 ...
Map of Hokkaido showing the subprefectures and the primary cities. As of April 2010, Hokkaidō has nine General Subprefectural Bureaus (総合振興局) and five Subprefectural Bureaus (振興局). Hokkaidō is one of eight prefectures in Japan that have subprefectures (支庁 shichō). However, it is the only one of the eight to have such ...
This was also a historical usage of the character in China. (In Korea, this historical usage is still used today and was kept during the period of Japanese rule.) Hokkai-dō (北海道, [hokkaꜜidoː]), the only remaining dō today, was not one of the original seven dō (it was known as Ezo in the pre-modern era).
Hokkaido Prefecture had 14 branch offices called 支庁 (shichō) in Japanese, which is often translated in English as subprefectures. Normally, a subprefecture consists of a few to a dozen cities, towns, and/or villages.
Abashiri Prefecture was named after the subprefectural office in Abashiri.However, the area was more commonly referred to as the Okhotsk region (オホーツク地方, Ohōtsuku-chihō), as it faces the Sea of Okhotsk, and the name Abashiri was changed to the more commonly used Okhotsk during the administrative redivision of Hokkaido's 14 subprefectures to 9 subprefectural bureaus in April, 2010.
In 1869, the island of Hokkaido, Japan was divided into 11 provinces and 86 districts. The majority of Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government between 1870 and 1876. [1] The Hokkaido provinces were dissolved in 1882, and replaced with Hakodate Prefecture, Sapporo Prefecture and Nemuro Prefecture.
This image was a edited version of File:Map of Japan with highlight on 01 Hokkaido prefecture.svg and File:Map of Japan with highlight on 01edit Hokkaido prefecture.svg due to the following reasons: Using of Hokkaido map where Kuril Islands belong to Japan its violation of principle "neutral point of view", abuse of independence, contravention ...
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