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Muraoka, Hyōgo
was a town located in Mikata District, Hyōgo, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 6,370 and a density of 38.45 persons per km2. The total area was 165.66 km2. On April 1, 2005, Muraoka, along with the town of Kasumi (from Kinosaki District), and the town of Mikata (also from Mikata District), was merged to create the town of Kami (in Mikata District), and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go .... The portion of Kami that was Muraoka is now known as Muraoka-ku, or Muraoka Ward. External links Official website of Kamiin Japanese Dissolved municipalities of Hyōgo Prefecture Kami, Hyōgo (Mikata) {{Hyogo-geo-stub ...
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List Of Towns In Japan
A town (町; ''chō'' or ''machi'') is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (''ken'' or other equivalents), city (''shi''), and village (''mura''). Geographically, a town is contained within a district. Note that the same word (町; ''machi'' or ''chō'') is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city, only to eventually merge into it. Towns See also * Municipalities of Japan * Japanese addressing system The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin characters, ad ... References {{reflist External links "Large_City_System_of_Japan";_graphic_shows_towns_compared_with_other_Japanese_city_types_at_p._1_[PDF_7_of_40/nowiki>">DF_7_of_4 ...
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Mikata District, Hyōgo
is a district located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of the April 1, 2005 merger (but using 2003 population statistics), the district has an estimated population of 40,084 and a density of 66 persons per km2. The total area is 610.02 km2. Towns and villages *Kami * Shin'onsen Mergers *On April 1, 2005 the towns of Mikata and Muraoka merged with the town of Kasumi, from Kinosaki District, to form the new town of Kami. *On October 1, 2005 the towns of Hamasaka and Onsen merged to form the town of Shin'onsen. Points of interest * Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens The are botanical gardens located at 709 Wachi, Muraoka-cho, Mikata-gun, Kami, Hyōgo, Japan. They are open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were established in 1997, and now contain more than 1,000 native ... * Antaiji Zen monastery References Districts in Hyōgo Prefecture {{Hyogo-geo-stub ...
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Hyōgo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, and Okayama Prefecture and Tottori Prefecture to the west. Kōbe is the capital and largest city of Hyōgo Prefecture, and the seventh-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Himeji, Nishinomiya, and Amagasaki. Hyōgo Prefecture's mainland stretches from the Sea of Japan to the Seto Inland Sea, where Awaji Island and a small archipelago of islands belonging to the prefecture are located. Hyōgo Prefecture is a major economic center, transportation hub, and tourist destination in western Japan, with 20% of the prefecture's land area designated as Natural Parks. Hyōgo Prefecture forms part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area, the second-most-populated urban region in Japan after the Greater Tokyo area and one of the w ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Kasumi, Hyōgo
was a town located in Kinosaki District, Hyōgo, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 13,519 and a density of 98.49 persons per km2. The total area was 137.26 km2. On April 1, 2005, Kasumi, along with the towns of Mikata and Muraoka (both from Mikata District), was merged to create the town of Kami (in Mikata District), and no longer exists as an independent municipality. The portion of Kami that was Kasumi is now known as Kasumi-ku, Kasumi Ward. Geography Climate Popular culture The popular visual novel and anime franchise ''Air'' was set in Kasumi. Transportation Train stations * JR-West ** Sanin Main Line: Kasumi ** Sanin Main Line: Satsu ** Sanin Main Line: Shibayama ** Sanin Main Line: Yoroi ** Sanin Main Line: Amarube Major roads Route 178 Attractions Historical Sites * Daijyō-ji Temple * Amarube Viaduct Other * Misaki lighthouse Misaki ( ja, 御先, "misaki") are a collective term for spirit-like existences in Japan like go ...
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Kinosaki District, Hyōgo
was a district in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The district was dissolved in 2005, and its towns were merged into Mikata District and the city of Toyooka, both within Hyōgo Prefecture. As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 41,455 and a density of . The total area was . Former towns and villages * Hidaka * Kasumi * Kinosaki * Takeno Mergers * On April 1, 2005, the town of Kasumi was merged with the towns of Mikata and Muraoka (both from Mikata District) to create the town of Kami (in Mikata District). * On April 1, 2005, the towns of Hidaka, Kinosaki, and Takeno, along with the towns of Izushi and Tantō A is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords ( ''nihonto'') that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The tantō dates to the Heian period, when it was mainly used as a weapon but evolved in design over the years to become more ... (both from Izushi District), were merged into the expanded city of Toyooka. Kinosaki District was ...
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Mikata, Hyōgo
was a town located in Mikata District, Hyōgo, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 2,523 and a density of 38.13 persons per km2. The total area was 66.16 km2. See Ojiro if you want to know the present situation of this area. This town was created on April 1, 1955, by the amalgamation of the village of Ojiro and the village of Isou. But on April 1, 1961, the portion of Mikata that was Isou merged into the town of Muraoka, because those who in Ojiro and Isou were not friendly. On April 1, 2005, Mikata, along with the town of Kasumi, and the town of Muraoka, was merged to create the town of Kami, and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go .... The portion of Kami that was Mikata is now known as Oj ...
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Kami, Hyōgo (Mikata)
is a town located in Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 16,256 in 6368 households and a population density of 44 persons per km². The total area of the town is . The Ojiro neighborhood of the town is designated as one of the Most Beautiful Villages in Japan. Kami is the birthplace of Tajiri-go, a Tajima Cattle who is the ancestor of more than 99.9% of Japanese Black ''wagyu''. Geography Kami is located in the northern part of Hyōgo Prefecture and the Kinki region, facing the Sea of Japan in the north. It lies entirely within the San'in Kaigan Geopark. In addition, the mountainous area in the south is within the borders of the Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park. The area is part of the snow country and is characterized by heavy accumulations of snow in winter. Neighbouring municipalities Hyōgo Prefecture * Shin'onsen * Toyooka * Yabu Tottori Prefecture * Wakasa Climate Kami has a humid subtropical clim ...
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Municipalities Of Japan
Japan has three levels of governments: national, prefectural, and municipal. The nation is divided into 47 prefectures. Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total (January 2013 figures There are four types of municipalities in Japan: Cities of Japan, cities, towns, villages and special wards (the ''ku'' of Tokyo). In Japanese, this system is known as , where each kanji in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. Some designated cities also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards. But, unlike the Special wards of Tokyo, these wards are not municipalities. Status The status of a municipality, if it is a village, town or city, is decided by the prefectural government. Generally, a village or town can be promoted to a city when its population increases above fifty thousand, and a city can (but need not) be demoted to a town or village when its population decreases below fifty thousand. The least-populated cit ...
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Dissolved Municipalities Of Hyōgo Prefecture
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