was a
village
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located in
Iwata District,
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...
,
Japan
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.
At the time of its merger, the village had an estimated
population
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of 1,123 and a
density
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of 16 persons per km². The total area was 70.23 km².
On July 1, 2005, Tatsuyama, along with the cities of
Tenryū and
Hamakita, the town of
Haruno (from
Shūchi District), the towns of
Hosoe,
Inasa and
Mikkabi (all from
Inasa District), the towns of
Misakubo and
Sakuma (all from
Iwata District), and the towns of
Maisaka and
Yūtō (both from
Hamana District), was merged into the expanded city of
Hamamatsu
is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. the city had an estimated population of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a population density of . The total area of the site was .
Overview
...
. It was the last village within Shizuoka Prefecture. It is now part of
Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu City.
External links
Hamamatsu official website
Tatsuyama J.H.S.official website
Tatsuyama official sight seeing website
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Hamamatsu
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