was a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Funai District,
Kyoto Prefecture,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, 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 8,516 and a
density
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of 114.94 persons per km
2. The total area was 74.09 km
2.
On October 11, 2005, Tanba, along with the towns of
Mizuho Mizuho () literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. It was also an ancient name of Japan. It might refer to:
Places
* Mizuho, Gifu, a city in Gifu
* Mizuho, Tokyo, a town in Tokyo
* Mizuho Plateau in A ...
and
Wachi (all from
Funai District), was merged to create the town of
Kyōtamba.
External links
Official website of Kyotamba
Dissolved municipalities of Kyoto Prefecture
Kyōtamba, Kyoto
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