was a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Ketaka District,
Tottori Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hirosh ...
,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated
population
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of 7,847 and a
density
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of 115.52 persons per km². The total area was 67.93 km².
On November 1, 2004, Aoya, along with the town of
Kokufu are the capitals of the historical Provinces of Japan.
History
As part of the Taika Reform (645) which aimed at a centralization of the administration following the Chinese model (''ritsuryō''), the kokufu and with it the office of the kokush ...
, the village of
Fukube (both from
Iwami District), the towns of
Ketaka and
Shikano (all from
Ketaka District), the towns of
Kawahara and
Mochigase, and the village of
Saji (all from
Yazu District), was merged into the expanded city of
Tottori.
External links
Official town website
Dissolved municipalities of Tottori Prefecture
Tottori, Tottori
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