is a newly created

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located in

Hidaka Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. The west side of the Hidaka mountains occupies most of the area. Hidaka is sparsely populated and has many of Hokkaido's natural resources. The governmental office is located in Urakawa. H ...

Hokkaido is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...

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 n ...

. As of October 31, 2006, the district has an estimated

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of 27,150 and a

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of 23.7 persons per km². The total area is 1,147.74 km².

Towns and villages

* Shinhidaka - merger of the former towns of Mitsuishi (from the former Mitsuishi District) and Shizunai (from the former Shizunai District) Districts in Hokkaido {{Hokkaido-geo-stub