was a
district
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located in
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, Hiro ...
,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the district had an estimated
population
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of 22,283 and a
density
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of 143.75 persons per km
2. The total area was 155.01 km
2.
Former towns and villages
*
Aoya
*
Ketaka
*
Shikano
Merger
* On November 1, 2004 - the towns of
Aoya,
Ketaka and
Shikano, 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 kokus ...
, the village of
Fukube (both from
Iwami District), the towns of
Kawahara and
Mochigase and the village of
Saji (all from
Yazu District) were merged into the expanded city of
Tottori. Ketaka District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
Former districts of Tottori Prefecture
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