Soya Subprefecture
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Key facts
- Prefecture
- Hokkaido
- Capital
- Wakkanai
- Total
- 4,050.76 km (1,564.01 sq mi)
- Density
- 18.679/km (48.379/sq mi)
- Website
- souya.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- subprefecture of Japan
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Hokkaidō
- Capital
- Wakkanai
- Area
- 4626.09
- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time
- Shares border with
- Okhotsk Subprefecture
- Official website
- www.souya.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp
- Image
- Wakkanai harbor.JPG
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- Commons category
- Soya subprefecture
- name in kana
- そうやそうごうしんこうきょく
- inception
- 2010-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Sōya Subprefecture (without Horonobe) Wakkanai City Sōya Subprefecture (宗谷総合振興局, Sōya-sōgō-shinkō-kyoku) is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. Its population is estimated to be 77,500 as of July 31, 2004 and its area is 4,050.84 square kilometres (1,564.04 mi). It is the northernmost subprefecture of Japan.
Wakkanai Airport is located in Wakkanai. Rishiri Airport is located in Rishirifuji, Rishiri District.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Soya Subprefecture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.