Hokkaido

[ hawk-kahy-daw; English ho-kahy-doh ]

noun

1. a large island in northern Japan. 30,303 sq. mi. (78,485 sq. km).

Hokkaido

/ hɒˈkaɪdəʊ /

noun

1. 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: 5 670 000 (2002 est). Area: 78 508 sq km (30 312 sq miles)

Example Sentences

We flew into Tokyo, and then on to Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido.

From The Daily Beast

Last night, on March 16, I learned that the Japanese Self Defense Force from Hokkaido had just left for the Tohoku area.

From The Daily Beast

They insisted on giving me two whole sets of maps of Hokkaido, though I only needed the sheets of quite a small district.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. Y——, one of the geologists from the Survey, visited me and we spent some time discussing the beds of Hokkaido.

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"Even in Hokkaido," Dr. Sato notes, "the average area per family is only 7½ acres."

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Boats came from Hokkaido and stole cattle from the prefecture to the number of a hundred a year.

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Many members of the "special tribes" go to Hokkaido and there pass into the general body of the population.

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