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| | Prefectures of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | "Hokkaido Prefecture" is, technically speaking, a redundant term, although it is occasionally used to differentiate the government from the island itself. |
 | | The largest and prefectural capital is Sapporo, the sixth largest city in Japan. |
 | | Karafuto, a portion of the island of Sakhalin north of Hokkaido (not shown on the map), was part of Japan from 1907 until World War II. |
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