district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
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 ...
SADO-GUN (5 MACHI 20 MURA) Administrative Subdivisions of Japan with Separate Appendix of 47 Prefectural Maps.
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. Division of Research for Far East, 1946, 652 pages existing from 1896 by 2004.
The Sado District was formed on April 1 of 1896 from old three districts of Sawata, Hamochi and
Kamo The name Kamo may refer to the following:
Places
Japan
(Note: ''kamo'' ( 鴨), is the common word for ''duck'' in Japanese, but the following names do not necessarily mean ''duck'' and are not necessarily written with that character.)
*Kamo, Nii ...
. The area was all Sado Island and the same to the
Sado Province
was a province of Japan until 1871; since then, it has been a part of Niigata Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Sado''" in . It was sometimes called or . It lies on the eponymous Sado Island, off the coast of Niigata Prefectur ...
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The district dissolved in March 2004 when the belonging towns and villages merged with the city of Ryōtsu to form the city of Sado. So the Sado Province, the Sado District and the Sado City has governed the same area with different status.
It contained the following towns and villages before its abolition:
* Aikawa (town)
* Kanai (town)
* Sawata (town)
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Hatano Hatano (written: 波多野, 羽多野, 秦野 or 畑野) is a Japanese surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similar ...
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Mano
Mano may refer to:
People
* Mano people, an ethnic group in Liberia
* Mano (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
* Mano (Mozambican footballer) (born 1984), real name Celso Halilo de Abdul
* Mano (Portuguese footballer) ...
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 197 ...