was a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
located in
Shimajiri District,
Okinawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi).
Naha is the capital and largest cit ...
,
Japan.
Ōzato Castle is located here. It is named for the
royal family
A royal family is the immediate family of kings/queens, emirs/emiras, sultans/ sultanas, or raja/ rani and sometimes their extended family. The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or empress, and the term p ...
of
Nanzan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
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 ...
of 11,648 and a
density
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of 943.16 persons per km
2. The total area was 12.35 km
2.
On January 1, 2006, Ōzato, along with the town of
Sashiki, and the villages of
Chinen and
Tamagusuku (all from
Shimajiri District), was merged to create the city of
Nanjō.
Dissolved municipalities of Okinawa Prefecture
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