Yamagata

Appellation

Yamagata is a GI in Japan.

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Key facts

Type: GI (National Tax Agency)
Protected since: 2021-06-30
Area: 932,731 ha registered outline
Centre: 38.4350° N, 140.1493° E
Legal basis: Geographical indications for wine designated by the National Tax Agency; each covers the whole prefecture.

Outline: Built from the administrative units that the legal definition names.

Where it is

Nearest town: 7.8 km north-west of Aterazawa
Nearest city: 13 km north-west of Sagae 43,544 people
To the sea: 52 km
Rivers nearby: Mogami (10 km)
Same latitude: Jumilla (Spain), Oakville (United States), Bivongi (Italy), Pico (Portugal), Μοσχάτο Πατρών (Greece)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: -2–2,189 m
Mean elevation: 438 m

Measured over the whole outline on 163,898 elevation cells of about 239 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Sources

geoBoundaries JPN ADM1 (2017) (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0)

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