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Kaijō District, Chiba
was a Districts of Japan, district located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 21,982 and a population density, density of 469.10 persons per km2. The total area was 46.86 km2. Until the day before the district dissolved (June 30, 2005), the district had two towns: * Iioka, Chiba, Iioka * Unakami, Chiba, Unakami On July 1, 2005, Iioka and Unakami were merged with the town of Hikata, Chiba, Hikata (from Katori District, Chiba, Katori District), and the old city of Asahi, Chiba, Asahi to create the new and expanded city of Asahi, Chiba, Asahi. Kaijō District was dissolved as a result of this merger. District Timeline * July 1, 2005 - the towns of Iioka, Chiba, Iioka and Unakami, Chiba, Unakami were merged with the town of Hikata, Chiba, Hikata (from Katori District, Chiba, Katori District), and the old city of Asahi, Chiba, Asahi to create the new and expanded city of Asahi, Chiba, Asahi. Kaijō District was dissolved as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Japan
In Japan, a is composed of one or more rural municipalities (Towns of Japan, towns or Villages of Japan, villages) within a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture. Districts have no governing function, and are only used for geographic or statistical purposes such as mailing addresses. Cities of Japan, Cities are not part of districts. Historically, districts have at times functioned as an administrative unit in Japan, administrative unit. From 1878 to 1921The governing law, the district code (''gunsei'', 郡制Entry for the 1890 originalanentry for the revised 1899 ''gunsei''in the National Diet Library ''Nihon hōrei sakuin''/"Index of Japanese laws and ordinances"), was abolished in 1921, but the district assemblies (''gunkai'', 郡会) existed until 1923, the district chiefs (''gunchō'', 郡長) and district offices (''gun-yakusho'', 郡役所) until 1926. district governments were roughly equivalent to a County (United States), county of the United States, ranking below Prefectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the northwest, and Tokyo to the west. Chiba is the capital and largest city of Chiba Prefecture, with other major cities including Funabashi, Matsudo, Ichikawa and Kashiwa. Chiba Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast to the east of Tokyo, and is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Chiba Prefecture largely consists of the Bōsō Peninsula, which encloses the eastern side of Tokyo Bay and separates it from Kanagawa Prefecture. Chiba Prefecture is home to Narita International Airport, the Tokyo Disney Resort, and the Keiyō Industrial Zone. Etymology The name of Chiba Prefecture in Japanese is formed from two kanji characters. The first, , means "thousand" and the second, means " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Population Density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopulation Density Geography.about.com. March 2, 2011. Retrieved on December 10, 2011. In simple terms, population density refers to the number of people living in an area per square kilometre, or other unit of land area. Biological population densities Population density is population divided by total land area, sometimes including seas and oceans, as appropriate. Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and further reduce fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it. Examples of the causes of reduced fertility in low population densities are * Increased problems with locating sexual mates * Increased inbreeding Human densities Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iioka, Chiba
was a town located in Kaijō District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Iioka was a noted port town in the Edo period, and prospered greatly in the aftermath of the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657, as a transshipment center for timber and building materials to Edo. Modern Iioka was formed on April 1, 1889. On March 31, 1954 it expanded through annexation of the villages of Sangawa and a part of Toyooka. On July 1, 2005, Iioka was merged with the city of Asahi, the town of Hikata (from Katori District), and the town of Unakami (also from Kaijō District) to form the new Asahi city, and it disappeared. In April 2005 (the last data available before its merger into Asahi), the town had an estimated population of 8,042 and a population density of 600 persons per km². Its total area was 18.27 km². Cultural References * Iioka is the setting for the first film in the classic Japanese blind swordsman series: The Tale of Zatoichi is a 1962 Japanese ''chanbara'' film directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unakami, Chiba
was a town located in Kaijō District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Unikami was formed on March 31, 1954. through the merger of the villages of Takisato, Oumei, and Tsurumaki. On July 1, 2005, Unakami was merged with the city of Asahi, the town of Hikata (from Katori District), and the town of Iioka (also from Kaijō District) to form the new Asahi city, and it disappeared. In April 2005 (the last data available before its merger into Asahi), the town had an estimated population of 11,153 and a population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ... of 390 persons per km². Its total area was 28.59 km². External links Asahi official website Dissolved municipalities of Chiba Prefecture Asahi, Chiba {{Chiba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hikata, Chiba
was a town located in Katori District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Hikata was formed on April 10, 1954. through the merger of the villages of Kojou, Chuwa, and Manzai. On July 1, 2005, Hikata was merged with Asahi, Iioka and Unakami (both from Kaijō District) to form the new Asahi city, and it disappeared. In April 2005 (the last data available before its merger into Asahi), the town had an estimated population of 8,042 and a population density Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopul ... of 248 persons per km². Its total area was 32.44 km². External links Asahi official website Dissolved municipalities of Chiba Prefecture Asahi, Chiba {{Chiba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katori District, Chiba
is a district located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The district dates back to the Taika Reform in the 7th century, and Katori District remained part of Shimōsa Province until the establishment of Chiba Prefecture. Historically Katori District occupied the area south of the lower researches of the Tone River. Since there is no population data since 2003, the post- Katori- Narita district had an estimated population of 40,260. The total area was . Towns and villages *Kōzaki * Tako * Tōnoshō District Timeline *July 1, 2005 - The town of Hikata merged with the towns of Iioka and Unakami from Kaijō District (now dissolved) and the city of Asahi to form the city of Asahi. *March 27, 2006 **The city of Sawara and the towns of Omigawa, Yamada and Kurimoto merged to form the new city of Katori. **The towns of Shimofusa and Taiei , also known as Taiei or Dai-ei, was a after '' Eishō'' and before '' Kyōroku.'' This period spanned the years from August 1521 through August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asahi, Chiba
is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 64,690 in 26,510 households and a population density of 500 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Asahi is located in far northeastern Chiba Prefecture, approximately 50 kilometers from the prefectural capital at Chiba and 80 to 90 kilometers from central Tokyo. Located at the northern end of the Kujukuri Plain, the southern part faces Kujukuri Beach and the Pacific Ocean, and the Shimōsa Plateau extends to the northern part. Surrounding municipalities Chiba Prefecture *Chōshi *Sōsa * Katori * Tōnoshō Climate Asahi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Asahi is 15.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1559 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.8 °C, and lowest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
