is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
located in
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 2010, the district has a
population
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of 72,822, which fell to 7,338 in 2015, and a
density
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of 8.5 persons per km
2. The total area is 865.12 km
2.
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Towns and villages
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Futaba
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Hirono
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Namie
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Naraha
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Ōkuma Okuma or Ōkuma may refer to:
Surname
*Ōkuma Shigenobu (大隈重信) (1838 – 1922) 8th and 17th Prime Minister of Japan, founder of Waseda University
*Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress of Nigerian descent
Other uses
*Okuma Corporation, a manufactu ...
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Tomioka
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Katsurao
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Kawauchi
See also
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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...
References
Districts in Fukushima Prefecture
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