Saitama
City in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Also known as Saitama City
- Country
- Located in
- Population
- 1,325,843(March 1, 2021)
1
Sources- 1.“埼玉県推計人口(月報) < 埼玉県”pref.saitama.lg.jp/a0206/03suikei/geppou01.html
- , 1,263,979(2015)
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Japan 2015 Census
- 2.“System of Social and Demographic Statistics of Japan - Total population (Both sexes)”e-stat.go.jp/en/regional-statistics/ssdsview/municipalityRetrieved 2019-03-17
- , 1,222,434(2010)
1
Sources- 1.“System of Social and Demographic Statistics of Japan - Total population (Both sexes)”e-stat.go.jp/en/regional-statistics/ssdsview/municipalityRetrieved 2019-03-17
- +1 more
- 1,325,843(March 1, 2021)
- Area
- 217.43 km²(January 1, 2021)
- Head of government
- Hayato Shimizu(since 2009)
- , Sōichi Aikawa(2001–2009)
- Founded
- May 1, 2001
Overview
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Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
157 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
- Toluca de Lerdo(since 1979)
- Zhengzhou
- Nanaimo(since 1996)
- Pittsburgh
- Hamilton(since 1984)
- Minamiaizu(since 1982) earliest date: November 4, 1975
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
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- Native label
- さいたま市
- Official name
- さいたま市
- Name in kana
- さいたまし
- Shares border with
- Ageo direction relative to location: north
- Kawaguchi direction relative to location: south
- Asaka direction relative to location: southwest
- Kawagoe direction relative to location: west
- Shiki direction relative to location: southwest
- Toda direction relative to location: south
- Hasuda direction relative to location: north
- Fujimi direction relative to location: west
- Social media followers
- 15,500(February 9, 2025) youtube channel id: UCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
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- 80,298(February 10, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 267537691
- 13,500(January 14, 2024) youtube channel id: UCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
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- 12,000(February 17, 2023) youtube channel id: UCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
- 10,300(March 17, 2022) youtube channel id: UCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
- 77,819(March 2, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 267537691
- 9,680(October 12, 2021) youtube channel id: UCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
- 71,687(January 4, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 267537691
- 15,500(February 9, 2025) youtube channel id: UCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
- Anthem
- Yume no Machi(since 2003)
- Nickname
- のびのびシティ
- Associated electoral district
- Saitama 1st district(since 2001)
- Saitama 5th district(since 2001)
- Saitama 15th district(since 2002)
- Saitama 16th district(since 2022)
- Demonym
- Saitamesi applies to part: masculine plural
On other databases
55 identifiers linking Saitama across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM location ID5621
- BabelNet ID03533203n
- CiNii Research ID1140000791868556672
- Corporate Number (Japan)2000020111007
- Dantai code111007
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Saitama-Japan
- Facebook usernamecity.saitama
- FAST ID1301079
- Freebase ID/m/0gp5df
- GeoLOD ID5iCNdQ
- GeoNames ID1849187
- GeoNLP ID (obsolete)xO8emO
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7217044
- GitHub topicsaitama
- GND ID10136840-9
- GNS Unique Feature ID10793588
- Google Maps Customer ID10120981172271117918
- Google News topics IDCAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNR2R3TldSbUVnSnFZU2dBUAE
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)3528237
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID69842
- INaturalist place ID34707
- Instagram usernamesaitamacity_official
- J9U entity ID987007489579105171
- Japan Search name IDさいたま市
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID6275
- Lex IDSaitama
- Library of Congress Authorities IDnr2003021191
- Museum-digital place ID24292
- MusicBrainz area IDafe629de-3e65-4523-aaa9-c07af18648ee
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA13995816
- Namuwiki ID사이타마시
- Naver Encyclopedia ID (pre-August 2026)1253627
- NDL Authority ID00846617
- NE.se IDsaitama
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDさいたま市
- NL CR AUT IDge323738
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID4087245
- OpenCorporates organization IDjp/2000020111007
- OpenStreetMap relation ID1767047
- OpenWeatherMap city ID6940394
- Pixiv Encyclopedia IDさいたま市
- Quora topic IDSaitama-Japan
- SNARC IDQ45429
- SPAP IDp/11f2e766-9747-4ca3-9889-232c0ac2204e
- TasteAtlas IDsaitama
- Tripadvisor ID298180
- UN/LOCODEJPSTM
- VIAF cluster ID130017994
- Who's on First ID102032221
- WOEID1116753
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJcRbdcFYTP4CgrD44X68C
- X (Twitter) usernameSaitamaCityPR
- Yale LUX IDplace/c9687078-9494-4944-a7cf-032d6def0b75
- YouTube channel IDUCDpL8p4S4TUZ9p3OiWfS2oQ
- YouTube handlesaitamacitypr