Hokkaido

Hok·kai·do  (h-kd, hôk-d)

An island of Japan north of Honshu. It is the second largest of the Japanese islands but the least populated. Hokkaido became part of Japan in the medieval period (c. 1600) and was called Yezo or Ezo until 1868.

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Hokkaido [hɒˈkaɪdəʊ]

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(Placename) the second largest and northernmost of the four main islands of Japan, separated from Honshu by the Tsugaru Strait and from the island of Sakhalin, Russia, by La Pérouse Strait: constitutes an autonomous administrative division. Capital: Sapporo. Pop.: 5 683 000 (2000 est.). Area: 78 508 sq. km (30 312 sq. miles)

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Hokkaido - the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu Ezo, Yezo Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean Asahikawa - a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area Sapporo - a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido