Hokkaido
a large island in northern Japan. 30,303 sq. mi. (78,485 sq. km).
- Formerly Ye·zo [Japanese ye-zaw] /Japanese ˈyɛ zɔ/ .
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How to use Hokkaido in a sentence
Japanese fishing boats preceded Japanese colonists to the coasts of Yezo.
Influences of Geographic Environment | Ellen Churchill SempleOn the northern island alone (Yezo) the coal deposits are two thirds those of all Great Britain.
Up To Date Business | VariousThose in the neighbourhood of Semipalatinsk may be instanced in the first case and those in the island of Yezo in the second.
To-day, it is probably the most active of them all in education, learning and missionary operations in Yezo, China and Korea.
The Religions of Japan | William Elliot GriffisStrahlenberg considers Kamchatka and Yezo to be the same land.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II | A.E. Nordenskieold
British Dictionary definitions for Hokkaido
/ (hɒˈkaɪdəʊ) /
the second largest and northernmost of the four main islands of Japan, separated from Honshu by the Tsugaru Strait and from the island of Sakhalin, Russia, by La Pérouse Strait: constitutes an autonomous administrative division. Capital: Sapporo. Pop: 5 670 000 (2002 est). Area: 78 508 sq km (30 312 sq miles)
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