Hakodate
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- Names
Hakodate
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Chief city of island of Hokkaidō for many years; replaced by Sapporo as capital; built on rocky peninsula; has excellent harbor; opened to foreign trade 1854.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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