was a
town
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located in
Asakuchi District,
Okayama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the nor ...
,
Japan.
As of 2003, Funao 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 7,393 and a
density
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of 682.01 persons per km
2. The total area of the town was 10.84 km
2.
On August 1, 2005, Funao, along with the town of
Mabi
Mauby (in Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Grenada, Guyana, Bermuda, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda and Anguilla), also known as ''maví (or mabí)'' in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, ''mabi'' ...
(from
Kibi District), was merged into the expanded city of
Kurashiki
is a historic Cities of Japan, city located in western Okayama Prefecture, Japan, sitting on the Takahashi River, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, Inland Sea. As of March 31, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 483,576 and a populat ...
.
Dissolved municipalities of Okayama Prefecture
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