Kita

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Contents 1 In Japanese 1.1 Place names 1.2 Other 2 Other meanings 3 See also

[edit] In Japanese

Kita (北) is Japanese for "north."

[edit] Place names

• Kita-ku (北区), meaning northern ward, is a ward name found in several cities:
  • Kita-ku, Hamamatsu
  • Kita-ku, Kobe
  • Kita-ku, Kyoto
  • Kita-ku, Nagoya
  • Kita-ku, Osaka
  • Kita-ku, Saitama
  • Kita-ku, Sakai
  • Kita-ku, Sapporo
  • Kita-ku, Tokyo
• Kita, Hokkaido (北村) is a village in Hokkaido Prefecture
• Kita is a local term for the northern commercial district of Osaka (part of, but not the same as, Kita-ku).
• While not the same kita, several districts in Japan are called Kita-gun:
  • Kita-gun, Ehime (喜多郡)
  • Kita-gun, Kagawa (木田郡)

[edit] Other

• Kita (喜多) is the name of a school of Noh theatre.

[edit] Other meanings

• Kita is a town in Mali.
• KITA is short for Kick in the Ass, a motivational method.
• Kita is also the stage name of Sampsa Astala the drummer of the Finnish glam metal band Lordi.

[edit] See also

• Northern (subnational entity)