Kita
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[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.