How many cities are there in Hokkaido, Japan?

Hokkaido has 34 cities. Select the main:

Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, is the administrative, economic and cultural center. It has a history of more than 30 years since/kloc-0, and the city system was implemented in 1922. With a population of1810.4 million and an area of11square kilometer, it is the fifth largest city in Japan (after Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya) and one of Japan's 12 decree cities. There are 10 districts in the city. Sapporo's name comes from Ainu language, which means a wide river flows on the dry plain. Mayor Ueda Xiong Wen was elected in June 2003.

Asahikawa City, located in Shangchuan Basin under the big snow mountain, is the commercial and circulation center in the northern region. Originally inhabited by Ainu people, the Japanese settled after Meiji. It has a population of 364,000 and an area of 748 square kilometers. The city is surrounded by rice producing areas, and its main industries are wood processing (one of the three major furniture producing areas in Japan) and food. Inland climate, the coldest in winter has reached MINUS 4 1 degree.

Hakodate is located at the southern tip of Hokkaido, near Tsutsugaru Strait, and is the administrative, economic and cultural center of southern Hokkaido. It has a population of 289,000 and an area of 347 square kilometers. The history is earlier, and it was called "Box Pavilion" in15th century. /kloc-In the middle of the 0/9th century, the American Paley Fleet arrived here and was one of the earliest trading ports in Japan. During the Meiji Restoration, the shogunate army failed to flee to Boxuan, and was wiped out by the government forces in the Chen Wu War (Boxuan War) the following year. 1869 changed its name to hakodate. Hakodate Prefecture was founded in 1882. Established in 1922. Before 1930s, it was the largest city in northeastern Japan and Hokkaido, and China, Britain, Russian and other countries set up consulates here. There are many European-style buildings such as churches and monasteries in the city. My overseas Chinese have been doing business here for a long time, including the Chinese People's Cemetery and the Chinese Guild Hall (Guandi Temple, built in 19 10).

Kushiro is a major city in the east of Hokkaido with a population of 194000. Former residence of Ainu people. 1869 is Kushiro, and most of the residents are descendants of immigrants from Akita, Aomori and Tottori counties. 1900 port, 1922 city. Aquatic products, coal and paper were once the three pillar industries of this city. The water yield of cod fishing base used to be the highest in Japan, but now it has declined. Japan's last coal base, with the closure of the Pacific coal mine, has no coal production now.

Population of Daiguang City175,000. The Japanese first entered this area in the early19th century, and only in 1884 did they immigrate from Toyama, Gifu and other counties to develop. Established in 1933. Mainly in agriculture and animal husbandry, the products are wheat, beets, potatoes and dairy products, known as the "garden city".

With a population of173,000, Shanxiaomu is an industrial port city developed after 1970s, and now it is the largest trading port in northern Japan. 16700 ships entering and leaving Hong Kong in 1998/kloc-0, with a cargo throughput of about 80 million tons, accounting for one third of the whole Hokkaido. It has regular cargo flights from North America, Southeast Asia, South Korea and China. Linhai Industrial Zone has oil refining, automobile, electric power, materials, non-ferrous metals, chemical industry and other factories.

The population of Otaru City is 6.5438+0.52 million. Established in 1922. /kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the Japanese came here to fish, which is famous for its rich herring. Commercial finance was developed before the war. It used to be one of the most prosperous cities in Hokkaido, known as the "commercial capital" and "Wall Street in the north", and it is also an important port city in the northern part of the Sea of Japan. After the war, the economic center of gravity shifted to Sapporo, and most of the sea cargo moved to Shanxiaomu Port. The economy is getting more and more depressed, and the population is greatly reduced. There are ancient relics in the city, such as Otaru Canal, Meiji and Taisho Building.