was a

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located in Ōnuma District,

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 Miya ...

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 ...

. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 6,500 and a

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of 161.85 persons per km². The total area was 40.16 km². On October 1, 2005, Aizuhongō, along with the town of Aizutakada, and the village of Niitsuru (all from Ōnuma District), was merged to create the town of

Aizumisato is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 20,092 in 7306 households and a population density of 73 persons per km2. The total area of the town was . Geography Aizumisato is located in the easte ...

External links

Aizumisato official website
Dissolved municipalities of Fukushima Prefecture Aizumisato, Fukushima {{Fukushima-geo-stub