was a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Inasa District,
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...
,
Japan
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. Inasa became a town on May 1, 1955.
As of April 1, 2005, the town had an estimated
population
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of 14,481 and a
density
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of 119.5 persons per km
2. The total area was 121.18 km
2.
On July 1, 2005, Inasa, along with the cities of
Tenryū and
Hamakita, the town of
Haruno (from
Shūchi District), the towns of
Hosoe and
Mikkabi (all from
Inasa District), the towns of
Misakubo and
Sakuma, the village of
Tatsuyama (all from
Iwata District), and the towns of
Maisaka and
Yūtō (both from
Hamana District), was merged into the expanded city of
Hamamatsu
is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. the city had an estimated population of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a population density of . The total area of the site was .
Overview
...
, and is now part of
Kita-ku, Hamamatsu City.
Sister cities
Inasa used to be a
sister city
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While there are early examples of inter ...
with
Chehalis, Washington
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Incorporated in 1883, Chehalis was primarily a logging and railroad town, with a shift towards farming in the m ...
, in the
United States
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.
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Hamamatsu
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