was a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Iwata 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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.
As of March 1, 2005, the town had an estimated
population
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of 19,756 and a
density
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of 836 persons per km². The total area was 23.62 km².
On April 1, 2005, Ryūyō, along with the towns of
Fukude and
Toyoda, and the village of
Toyooka (all from
Iwata District), was merged into the expanded city of
Iwata and thus no longer exists as an independent
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
.
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Iwata, Shizuoka
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