is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Tokachi Subprefecture
is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan corresponding to the old province of Tokachi.Rowthorn, Chris. (2009) ''Japan,'' p. 641 As of 2004, its estimated population is 360,802 and its area is 10,830.99 km2.
Tokachi-Obihiro Airpo ...
,
Hokkaido
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The lar ...
,
Japan.
As of September 2016, the town has an estimated
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
of 27,310 and a
density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematical ...
of 80 persons per km
2. The total area is 340.46 km
2.
On February 6, 2006, the village of
Chūrui (from
Hiroo District) was merged into Makubetsu.
Makubetsu is the birthplace of
park golf, and as of 2006, has no less than ten individual courses.
Mascots
Makubetsu's mascot is is a blue elephant. He is one of the descendants of Naumann's elephants. His charm points are his trunks, his big ears, his long tusks and his lovely eyes. He is assisted by who is a woodpecker from the local park golf course. They both love to play park golfing and eat lily blubs. Pao-kun is unveiled in 1997 while Kumagera-kun is unveiled in 2006.
Notable people from Makubetsu
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Hiromu Arakawa
is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the manga series '' Fullmetal Alchemist'' (2001–2010), which became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was adapted into two anime television series. She is also known for '' Silv ...
, the author of ''
Fullmetal Alchemist
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''shōnen'' manga anthology magazine '' Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' between July 2001 and June 2010; the publisher later collected th ...
'' and
''Silver Spoon''
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Chisato Fukushima, track and field sprint athlete
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Miho Takagi, speed skater
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Nana Takagi
(born 2 July 1992) is a Japanese former speed skater who is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.
Career
Takagi has won a pair of silver medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships, in two team pursuit events.
She made he ...
, speed skater
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Fumio Ueda, former mayor of
Sapporo
( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit ...
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Kohei Yamamoto, mountain biker
References
External links
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Official Website
Towns in Hokkaido
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