was a

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located in

Yamamoto District is a rural district located in Akita Prefecture, Japan. At present time (as of August 2013), the district has an estimated population of 29,254 and an area of 764.27 km2. All of the city of Noshiro was formerly part of Yamamoto District. ...

Akita Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its ge ...

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. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 4,494 and a

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of 39.90 persons per km². The total area was 112.62 km². On March 27, 2006, Hachimori, along with the village of Minehama (also from

), was merged to create the town of Happō.

External links

Hachimori official website
in Japanese
Wayback machine
Dissolved municipalities of Akita Prefecture Happō, Akita {{Akita-geo-stub