Mikatsuki, Saga

was a

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located in

Ogi District was a Districts of Japan, district located in Saga Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 45,910 and a population density, density of 478.98 persons per km2. The total area was 95.85 km2. Former towns an ...

Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasak ...

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 ...

. The status of Mikatsuki was changed from a village to a town on January 1, 1969. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 11,675 and a

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of 568.68 persons per km². Its total area was 20.53 km². On March 1, 2005, Mikatsuki, along with the towns of Ogi (former), Ashikari and Ushizu (all from

), was merged to create the city of

Ogi Ogi may refer to: People * Adolf Ogi (born 1942), Swiss politician *, Japanese football player *, Japanese actress and politician *Darko Ostojić (born 1965), nicknamed Ogi, Bosnian musician and actor *, Japanese football player *Ogi Ogas (born 19 ...

. Dissolved municipalities of Saga Prefecture {{Saga-geo-stub