Minami-ku (Saitama)

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Saitama Coat of Arms
Minami-ku
Municipality of Saitama
Minami-ku in Saitama
Coordinates 35 ° 50 '47 "  N , 139 ° 38' 53"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 50 '47 "  N , 139 ° 38' 53"  E
surface 13.89 km²
Residents 190.710 (Oct. 1, 2019)
Population density 13,730 inhabitants / km²
Community key 11108-2

Administration address		 7-6-1 Bessho, Minami-ku, Saitama 336-8586
Website www.city.saitama.jp/index_minamiku.html

Minami-ku ( Japanese 南 区 , dt. 'Southern District') is a district ( ku ) of the Japanese city ​​of Saitama . Minami is located on the Arakawa River near Tokyo .

history

As an independent city with over 500,000 inhabitants, Urawa was the administrative seat of Saitama Prefecture on Honshū , the main island of Japan, until 2001 . On May 1, 2001, Urawa was dissolved as a city (Shi) and merged with Ōmiya , Yono and Iwatsuki to form the new prefecture capital Saitama, in which the former city of Urawa comprises the southern districts of Sakura ('cherry'), Urawa, Minami and Midori ('green ') forms.

traffic

Street

  • National road 17 to Tōkyō or Niigata

train

Web links

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