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was a
city
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located in
Niigata Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...
,
Japan
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. The city was founded on June 1, 1954.
As of 2003, the city 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 23,855 and the
density
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of 116.41 persons per km². The total area was 204.92 km².
On January 1, 2006, Tochio, along with the towns of
Teradomari and
Yoita, and the village of
Washima (all from
Santō District), was merged into the expanded city of
Nagaoka.
Transportation
Railway
Echigo Kotsu Tochio Line
was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Echigo''" in . It corresponds today to Niigata ...
(
:ja:越後交通栃尾線) had been operated in the city until 1973.
Highway
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See also
Dissolved municipalities of Niigata Prefecture
Nagaoka, Niigata
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