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Nishishirakawa District, Fukushima
is a district located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 68,450 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematicall ... of 138.39 persons per km2. The total area is 494.63 km2. Towns and villages * Yabuki * Izumizaki * Nakajima * Nishigō Merger * On November 7, 2005 the villages of Higashi, Omotegō and Taishin merged into the city of Shirakawa. Districts in Fukushima Prefecture {{Fukushima-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Japan
In Japan, a is composed of one or more rural municipalities (towns or villages) within a prefecture. Districts have no governing function, and are only used for geographic or statistical purposes such as mailing addresses. Cities are not part of districts. Historically, districts have at times functioned as an 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 of the United States, ranking below prefecture and above town or village, on the same level as a city. District governments were entirely abolished by 1926. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miyagi Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture to the north, Niigata Prefecture to the west, Gunma Prefecture to the southwest, and Tochigi Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture to the south. Fukushima is the capital and Iwaki is the largest city of Fukushima Prefecture, with other major cities including Kōriyama, Aizuwakamatsu, and Sukagawa. Fukushima Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast at the southernmost part of the Tōhoku region, and is home to Lake Inawashiro, the fourth-largest lake in Japan. Fukushima Prefecture is the third-largest prefecture of Japan (after Hokkaido and Iwate Prefecture) and divided by mountain ranges into the three regions of Aizu, Nakadōri, and Hamadōri. History Prehistory The keyhole-shape ... [...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 an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo ... [...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 cro ... [...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, usu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yabuki, Fukushima
is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 16,955 in 6051 households, and a population density of 280 persons per km². The total area of the town was . Geography Yabuki is located in the flatlands of south-central Fukushima prefecture, approximately 212 kilometers north of Tokyo. *Rivers: Abukuma River Neighboring municipalities * Fukushima Prefecture ** Shirakawa ** Kagamiishi ** Ishikawa ** Nakajima ** Izumizaki ** Ten-ei ** Tamakawa Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Yabuki has remained relatively stable over the past 40 years. Climate Yabuki has a humid climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Yabuki is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . History The area of present-day Yabuki was part of ancient Mutsu Province an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumizaki, Fukushima
is a village located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 6,265 in 2179 households, and a population density of 180 persons per km². The total area of the village was . Geography Izumizaki is located in the flatlands of south-central Fukushima prefecture. Neighboring municipalities * Fukushima Prefecture ** Shirakawa ** Nakajima ** Yabuki Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Izumizaki has remained relatively stable over the past 80 years. Climate Izumizaki has a humid climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Izumizaki is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. *Rivers: Abukuma River, Izumi River History The area of present-day Izumizaki was part of ancient Mutsu Province and the area has many burial mounds from the Kofun period. The area was divided between part of the holdings of Shirakawa Domain, Kasama Domain and ''tenryō'' territor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakajima, Fukushima
is a village located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 5,031 in 1696 households, and a population density of 270 persons per km². The total area of the village was . Geography Nakajima is located in the flatlands of south-central Fukushima prefecture. *Rivers: Abukuma River Neighboring municipalities * Fukushima Prefecture ** Shirakawa ** Izumizaki ** Yabuki ** Ishikawa Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Nakajima has remained relatively stable over the past 50 years. Climate Nakajima has a humid climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Nakajima is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . History The area of present-day Nakajima was part of ancient Mutsu Province. The area was mostly ''tenryō'' territory under the direct control of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishigō, Fukushima
270px, Kashi Onsen is a village located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 20,351 in 7618 households and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the village was .. Geography Nishigō is located in the upper reaches of the Abukuma River valley in south-central Fukushima prefecture, bordered by Tochigi Prefecture to the south. It is about 185 km north of Tokyo. *Mountains: Sanbonyaridake (1916.9m) *Rivers: Abukuma River *Lakes: Nishigō Dam, Akasaka Dam Neighboring municipalities * Fukushima Prefecture ** Shirakawa ** Ten'ei ** Shimogō *Tochigi Prefecture **Nasushiobara ** Nasu Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Nishigō has increased over the past 50 years. Climate Nishigō has a humid climate ( Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Nishigō is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higashi, Fukushima
was a village located in Nishishirakawa District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. On November 7, 2005, Higashi, along with the villages of Omotegō and Taishin (all from Nishishirakawa District) was merged into the expanded city of Shirakawa. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 6,021 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematicall ... of 149.11 persons per km². The total area was 40.38 km². External links Shirakawa official website Dissolved municipalities of Fukushima Prefecture {{Fukushima-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omotegō, Fukushima
was a village located in Nishishirakawa District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. On November 7, 2005, Omotegō, along with the villages of Higashi and Taishin (all from Nishishirakawa District) was merged into the expanded city of Shirakawa. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 7,322 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the substance's mass per unit of volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' can also be used. Mathematicall ... of 110.14 persons per km². The total area was 66.48 km². External links Shirakawa official website Dissolved municipalities of Fukushima Prefecture {{Fukushima-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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