![Nishishirakawa District in Fukushima Prefecture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Nishishirakawa_District_in_Fukushima_Prefecture.svg)
is a
district
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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
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.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated
population
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of 68,450 and a
density
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of 138.39 persons per km
2. The total area is 494.63 km
2.
Towns and villages
*
Yabuki
*
Izumizaki
*
Nakajima
*
Nishigō
Merger
* On November 7, 2005 the villages of
Higashi Higashi is the Japanese word for ''east''. In kanji it is represented as 東.
Higashi may also refer to:
Places
*Higashi, Shibuya, a district of Shibuya, Tokyo
*Higashi, Fukushima, a village in Fukushima Prefecture
* Higashi, Okinawa, a village i ...
,
Omotegō and
Taishin merged into the city of
Shirakawa.
Districts in Fukushima Prefecture
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