is one of the eight wards of the city of

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...

. The northern portion contains what was Asa-gun and southern Takata-gun, now defunct districts (see

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). Asa-gun consisted of Kabe-cho, Kōyō-cho, Asa-cho. Takata-gun included Shiraki-cho. After the four towns were merged with Hiroshima in 1973, they were designated a ward and named Asakita-ku. As of April 1, 2006, the ward has an estimated

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of 156,516 and a

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of 442.95 persons per km². The total area is 353.35 km². The Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's College is located in Asakita-ku.

Geography

Climate

Asakita-ku has a

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(

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''Cfa'') characterized by cool to mild winters and hot, humid summers. The average annual temperature in Asakita-ku is . The average annual rainfall is with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Asakita-ku was on 16 July 1994; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 27 February 1981.

Demographics

References

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