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In Japanese
Kita (北) is Japanese for "north."
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, Hokkaidō (北村) is a village in Hokkaidō
- 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)
Other
- Kita (喜多) is the name of a school of Noh theatre.
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 hard rock band Lordi.
- Kita is short for Mahal Kita, which means I love you in Tagalog (Language of the Phillipines)
- Kita is us, our in Indonesian language
- KITA is short for Kerala Information Technology Alliance (http://www.kita.in)
- KITA is short for the Korean Investors and Traders Association of Southern California, Inc (website)
- In German, Kita or KITA is short for Kindertagesstätte (kindergarten)
