was a

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located in

Izumi District , meaning " spring" or "fountain", is a Japanese given name and surname. While a unisex name, it is more commonly used by women. It can alternately be written as , , , or . People with the name include: As given name * , actress * , stage name M ...

, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 13,965 and the

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of 196.28 persons per km². The total area was 71.15 km². On March 13, 2006, Takaono, along with the town of

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(also from

), was merged into the expanded city of Izumi and no longer exists as an independent

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External links

Official website of Izumi
(some content in English) Dissolved municipalities of Kagoshima Prefecture {{Kagoshima-geo-stub