Sister cities of Wakkanai, Hokkaido

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Sister cities of Wakkanai, Hokkaido — sistercity.info</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/css/stylesheet.css?f" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico?f" /> <script async="async" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/common.js?f"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/leaflet.css?v=0.6.4" />  <script src="/assets/js/leaflet.js?v=0.6.4"></script> </head> <body> <div class="header-wrapper"> <div class="header"> <a href="/">Sister Cities of the World</a> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Home</a> <span class="unicode-arrow">▶</span> <a href="/countries/">Countries</a> <span class="unicode-arrow">▶</span> <a href="/countries/jp.html">Japan</a> <span class="unicode-arrow">▶</span> Wakkanai, Hokkaido</div> <div class="ad ad-top"> <script>  </script> </div> <div class="content"> <h1>Sister cities of Wakkanai, Hokkaido</h1> <ul class="sister-cities"> <li class="flag-list-elem"> <div class="flag flag-ru"></div> <div class="label"><a href="Korsakov%20(town).html">Korsakov</a> <span title="Reciprocal link">⇄</span></div> </li> <li class="flag-list-elem"> <div class="flag flag-ru"></div> <div class="label"><a href="Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.html">Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk</a> <span title="Reciprocal link">⇄</span></div> </li> </ul> <div id="map" class="map"></div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <div class="city-article"> <p><b>Wakkanai</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">稚内市</span><span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display:none">,</span> <i>Wakkanai-shi</i>, Ainu: ヤム・ワクカー・ネイ <i>Yam Wakka Nay</i>)</span> is a city located in Sōya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of Sōya Subprefecture and the northernmost city in Japan. It contains Japan's northernmost point, Cape Soya, from which the Russian island of Sakhalin can be seen. </p> <p>As of December 31, 2007, the city has an estimated population of 40,629 and a population density of 53.63 persons per km² (138.9 persons per sq. mi.). The total area is 760.80 km<sup>2</sup> (293.75 sq mi). </p> <p>The city was founded on April 1, 1949. </p> <p>Wakkanai Airport is located in Wakkanai, whilst JR Hokkaido runs a diesel train service on the Sōya Main Line from Asahikawa to Sapporo. </p> </div> <p class="license">Content on this page is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false">CC-BY-SA</a> from the authors of the following Wikipedia pages: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20twin%20towns%20and%20sister%20cities%20in%20Japan" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false">List of twin towns and sister cities in Japan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakkanai%2C%20Hokkaido" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false">Wakkanai, Hokkaido</a>. Note that the data on Wikipedia is highly unreliable. In many cases, sister cities are missing or wrongly listed. Some cities also have different levels of partnership. If you find an error, please make a correction on the relevant Wikipedia pages and cite your sources.</p> </div> <div class="ad ad-bottom"> <script>  </script> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="/privacy-policy.html">Privacy Policy</a> <span class="sep">•</span> <a href="/contact.html">Contact</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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