is a

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located in

Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

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 ...

. As of 2003, the district has an estimated

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of 86,405 and a

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of 201.79 persons per km². The total area is 428.20 km².

Towns and villages

* Kawasaki * Murata * Ōgawara * Shibata Districts in Miyagi Prefecture {{Miyagi-geo-stub