was a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Sanbu District,
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...
,
Japan
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.
Sanbu Town was formed on March 1, 1955 through the merger of the villages of Mutsuoka and Hyūga.
On March 27, 2006, Sanbu, along with the towns of
Matsuo Matsuo may refer to:
Places
* Matsuo, Chiba
* Matsuo, Iwate
*Mount Matsuo
*Matsuo Station (disambiguation)
* Siege of Matsuo
*Matsuo mine
, was an iron and sulphur mine located in the village of Matsuo, Iwate Prefecture in the Tohoku region of n ...
and
Narutō, and the village of
Hasunuma (all from
Sanbu District), was merged to create the city of
Sanmu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.
The city name of Sanmu is written with the same ''
kanji
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'' as Sambu, but is pronounced differently.
As of February 1, 2006, (the last census data prior to the merger) the town had an estimated
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
of 19,779 and a
population density
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of 380 persons per km². The total area was 52.05 km².
External links
Sanbu official website (Archive)
Sanmu official website
Dissolved municipalities of Chiba Prefecture
Sanmu
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