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located in

Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefecture ...

, Japan. As of November 1, 2021, the district has a population of 14,898. The total area is . Currently, the district has only one town left. * Tone

Timeline

*December 2, 1878 - The district was founded when Sōma District in

Shimōsa Province was a province of Japan in the area modern Chiba Prefecture, and Ibaraki Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Shimōsa''" in . It lies to the north of the Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first ''kanji'' from ...

split into Kitasōma District in Ibaraki Prefecture and Minamisōma District in

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to t ...

. *March 13, 1947 - The village of Ino merged into the town of Toride. *March 20, 1954 - The villages of Kawarashiro and Kitamonma were merged into the town of Ryūgasaki in Inashiki District. The town gained city status at the same time. *March 21, 1954 - The parts of the village of Takasu merged into the city of Ryūgasaki. *July 10, 1954 - The village of Sakate merged into the town of Mitsukaidō in

Yūki District is a district located in Ibaraki 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 ...

. The town gained city status at the same time. *January 1, 1955 - The town of Fukawa and the villages of Monma, Fumi, and Higashimonma merged to form the town of Tone. *February 21, 1955 **The town of Sōma and the villages of Rokugō, Sannō, and parts of Takasu merged to form the town of Fujishiro. **The remaining parts of Takasu was merged into the city of Ryūgasaki. *March 1, 1955 **The town of Moriya and the villages of Kōya, Ōno, and Ōisawa merged to form the town of Moriya. **The village of Kokinu merged with the villages of Yahara, Jūwa, and Fukuoka from Tsukuba District to form the town of

Yawara The ''yawara'' is a Japanese weapon used in various martial arts. Numerous types of jujutsu make use of a small rod, made of wood, that extends somewhat from both ends of a person's fist which is known as a ''yawara''. The ''yawara'' likely orig ...

(On March 27, 2006, Yawara, along with the town of Ina (also from Tsukuba District), was merged to create the city of Tsukubamirai). *April 1, 1956 - The villages of Uchimoriya and Sugao were merged into the city of Mitsukaidō. *October 1, 1970 - The town of Toride gained city status. *February 2, 2002 - The town of Moriya gained city status. *March 28, 2005 - The town of Fujishiro merged into the expanded city of

Toride file:Oohorinowatashi 001.JPG, 260px, Ohori-no-watashi is a Cities of Japan, city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 104,329 in 44,755 households and a population density of 1492 persons per km². The p ...

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*Contents of this article, contains information from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at 北相馬郡. Districts in Ibaraki Prefecture {{Ibaraki-geo-stub