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| Capital | Akita |
| Region: | Tohoku |
| Island: | Honshu |
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Ranked 6th 11,612.11 kmē |
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Ranked 35th 1,174,905 |
| Districts: | 9 |
| MunicipalitiesA municipality or general-purpose district (see also: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessa: | 69 |
| ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 codes for Japan cover 47 prefectures. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code JP for Japan, the second part is two-digit-numeric. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for us: | JP-05 |
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| Pref. FlowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and: | ButterburButterburs Scientific Classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Tribe: Senecioneae Genus Petasites Species Petasites frigidus Petasites hybridus Petasites japonicus Petasites sagittatu blossomAlternate meanings: See Blossom (disambiguation Blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees (Genus Prunus and of some other small plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely but for a short period of time. Blossoms are either pi (Petasites japonicus) |
| Pref. TreeThis article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). oak tree in Denmark A tree can be defined as a large perennial woody plant. Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally: | Akita-sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) |
| Pref. BirdFor other meanings of bird see bird (disambiguation). Many see text Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds in: | Copper pheasantIthaginis Catreus Rheinartia Crossoptilon Lophura Argusianus Pucrasia Syrmaticus Chrysolophus Phasianus † See also partridge, quail Pheasants are a group of large birds from the order Galliformes. In some countries they are hunted as game. They are (Phasianus soemmerringii) |
Akita Prefecture (秋田県; Akita-ken) is located in the Tohoku region of northern Japan. The capital is Akita.