Kita or KITA may refer to:
People
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Kita (surname)
Kita is a Japanese and Polish surname. As a Japanese surname it might be written various ways in kanji (e.g. meaning "north"; meaning "field of trees"; meaning "many happinesses"). As a Polish surname it is derived from the nickname "kita", whic ...
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Kita Alexander (born 1996), Australian singer-songwriter
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João Leithardt Neto, Brazilian footballer nicknamed Kita
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Sampsa Astala
Sampsa Astala, (born 23 January 1974), known by stage names Stala and Kita, is the lead singer of the Finnish glam rock band Stala & SO. and the former and original drummer for the rock band Lordi.
His current stage name, Stala, comes from his ...
, Finnish musician whose stage name is Kita
Places
In Japan
* Kita-ku (北区), meaning “northern ward”, is a ward name found in several cities:
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Kita-ku, Hamamatsu
was a ward in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, located in the north of the city. It is bordered by Tenryū-ku to the north, Higashi-ku and Naka-ku to the east, Hamakita-ku Minami-ku and Kosai to the south, and the cities of Toyohashi and Shinsh ...
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Kita-ku, Kobe
is one of 9 wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 241.84 km2, and a population of 226,402 (2008). ''Kita'' in Japanese means North. Kita-ku is the biggest ward in Kobe and occupies the northeastern part of the city. Arima Onsen is locat ...
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Kita-ku, Kumamoto
is one of the five Wards of Japan, wards of Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Kumamoto City, Japan. Meaning literally "north ward," it is bordered by the Nishi-ku, Kumamoto, Nishi-ku, Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, Chūō-ku, Higashi-ku, Kumamoto, Higashi-ku and also b ...
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Kita-ku, Kyoto
is one of the eleven Wards of Kyoto, wards in the Municipalities of Japan, city of Kyoto, Kyoto, Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Its name means "North Ward." As of 2020, the ward has an estimated population of 117,165 people.
Hiragino typefa ...
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Kita-ku, Nagoya
is one of the 16 Wards of Japan, wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the ward had an estimated population of 163,555 and a population density of 9,330 persons per km2. The total area was 17.53 km2.
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Kita-ku, Niigata
is one of the eight Wards of Japan, wards of Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. , the ward had an estimated population of 74,559 in households and a population density of 690 persons per km². The total area of ...
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Kita-ku, Okayama
is one of four Wards of Japan, wards of Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 451.03 km2 and a population of 295,312. The population density is 655 per square kilometer. The name means "North Ward."
The wards of Okay ...
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Kita-ku, Osaka
is one of 24 wards of Japan, wards of Osaka in Japan.
Incidents and accidents
* 1970 Tenroku gas explosion
* 2021 Osaka building fire
Notable locations
Kita-ku, particularly the Umeda area surrounding Osaka Station, is one of the main comm ...
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Kita-ku, Saitama
250px, Ōmiya Bonsai Village
is one of ten wards of the city of Saitama, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, and is located in the northwestern part of the city. , the ward had an estimated population of 148,935 and a population density of 8800 perso ...
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Kita-ku, Sakai
is a ward of the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 15.58 km2 and a population of 154,846. The population density is 9,945 per km2.
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Kita-ku, Sapporo
is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas. With 260,000 people, it is the most populat ...
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Kita-ku, Tokyo
is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is City of Kita. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.
As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated po ...
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Kita, Hokkaidō
was a village located in Sorachi District, Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
As of 2004, the village had an estimated population of 3,671 and a density of 38.05 persons per km2. The total area was 96.49 km2.
On March 27, 2006, Kita, ...
(北村), a village in Hokkaidō
* A local term for the northern commercial district of
Osaka
is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...
(part of, but not the same as, Kita-ku)
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Kita District, Ehime
The is a district located in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. As of 2005, the estimated population is 20,784 with a total area is 299.50 km2. The district includes the town of Uchiko.
Origin of name
The name "Kita" is first found in the year 901 i ...
(喜多郡)
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Kita District, Kagawa
is a district located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
The district was formed on 1 April 1899 under the Districts Act which came into force at that time. Its area consisted of 19 villages that made up the former districts of Miki and Yamada.
Dur ...
(木田郡)
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Kita Station (喜多駅), a railway station in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture
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Mount Kita
is a mountain of the Akaishi Mountains−"Southern Alps" (南アルプス ''Minami-Arupusu''), in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
It is the second tallest mountain in Japan, after Mount Fuji, and is known as "the Leader of the Southern Alps".< ...
(北岳), a mountain of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture
Elsewhere
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Kita, Mali
Kita is a town and Communes of Mali, urban commune in western Mali. The town is the capital of the Kita Cercle in the Kayes Region. It lies on the eastern slope of Mount Kita (Bambara: "Kita-kulu"), known for its caves and rock paintings. Today, ...
, a town in Mali
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Kita, Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland
* One of the
Maug Islands
Maug (from the Chamorro name for the islands, Ma'ok, meaning 'steadfast' or 'everlasting') consists of a group of three small uninhabited islands. This island group is part of the Northern Islands Municipality of the Commonwealth of the North ...
Other uses
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KITA (FM), an American radio station
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Kita (Noh school) (喜多), a school of Noh theatre
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Korea International Trade Association
The Korea International Trade Association (KITA; ) is a private non-profit trade organization founded in 1946 with 105 traders as its founding members. It is one of Korea's largest umbrella economic organizations and has more than 70,000 member fi ...
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People's Welfare Party (Malaysia)
The People's Welfare Party or ''Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air'' (KITA) is a small political party in Malaysia, based in the state of Kelantan. History Founded as AKIM (1995)
The party was formerly known as the Malaysian People Justice Fr ...
(), a Malaysian political party
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Sony Ericsson Yari, known as Kita in the Philippines
* A common shorthand for Kindertagesstätte (
kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cen ...
) in Germany (as Kita or KiTa)
See also
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