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Shakotan, Hokkaido
is a town located in Shakotan District, Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 2012, the town had a population of 2,480 and a density of 10 persons per km². The total area of the town is , and located west of Sapporo, the capital and economic hub of Hokkaido. Shakotan occupies the north of the Shakotan Peninsula. It was founded in 1869 as part of the short-lived Shiribeshi Province, which was dissolved in 1882 to become Hokkaido. Shakotan, along with neighboring Otaru, is home to Japan's only national-level marine sanctuary. Shakotan is home to the three great capes of the Shakotan Peninsula: Kamui, Shakotan, and Ōgon.
==Etymology==
The name of the town originates from the word "ShakKotan" in the Ainu language. It is formed from two words, the first, "shak", meaning "summer", and the second, "kotan", meaning "village".〔
In the Japanese language the name of the town is written with ''ateji'', or kanji characters used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words. The first, , means to "store" or "accumulate", and the second, , means "red" or "red earth". The meaning of the written form of Shakotan has no relationship to the meaning of "Shakotan" in the Ainu language.
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