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
Shimomashiki District,
Kumamoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to ...
,
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 town had an estimated
population
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of 4,925 and the
density
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of 156.15 persons per km². The total area was 31.54 km².
On January 15, 2005, Toyono, along with the towns of
Misumi and
Shiranuhi
is a seedless and sweet variety of satsuma orange.
It is a hybrid between Kiyomi and ponkan (Nakano no.3), developed in Japan in 1972.
Originally a brand name, "Dekopon" has become a genericized trademark and it is used to refer to all brands ...
(both from
Uto District), and the towns of
Matsubase and
Ogawa
Ogawa (written: lit. "small river" or in hiragana) is the 30th most common Japanese surname. Less common variants are (also "small river") or ("tail river"). Notable people with the surname include:
*, American poet
*, Japanese footballer
* ...
(all from
Shimomashiki District), was merged to create the city of
Uki Uki or UKI may refer to:
*Uki Goñi, writer, journalist and musician
*Uki, New South Wales, an Australian town
*Uki, Kumamoto, a Japanese city
*Uki Island in Solomon Islands
* ''Uki'' (TV series), a pre-school animated television programme from Bel ...
and no longer exists as an independent
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
.
External links
Official website of Uki
Dissolved municipalities of Kumamoto Prefecture
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