was a
city
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located in
Fukuoka Prefecture,
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 ...
. The city was founded on April 1, 1954.
As of 2003, the city had an estimated
population of 11,367 and the
density of 515.51 persons per km². The total area was 22.05 km².
On March 27, 2006, Yamada, along with the towns of
Inatsuki,
Kaho and
Usui
The traditional chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms.
''Yǔshuǐ'' / 雨水, ''Usui'', ''Usu'', or ''Vũ thủy'' (in vietnamese lenguage), literally meaning ''rain water'', is the 2nd one of them.
It begins when the Sun reache ...
(all from
Kaho District), was merged to create the city of
Kama.
External links
Kama official website
Dissolved municipalities of Fukuoka Prefecture
Populated places established in 1954
Populated places disestablished in 2006
2006 disestablishments in Japan
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