Mitoyo District, Kagawa
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was a
district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district had an estimated
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of 93,984 and a
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of 322.96 persons per km2. The total area was 291.01 km2.


Mergers

* Mitoyo District was created by the merger of two separate districts, (三野郡) ''Mi''no-gun and (豊田郡) ''Toyo''ta-gun in 1899. * On October 11, 2005 - the towns of Ōnohara and Toyohama merged to form the city of Kan'onji. * On January 1, 2006 - the towns of
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,
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, Saita, Takase, Takuma,
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and Yamamoto were merged to create the city of Mitoyo. Mitoyo District was dissolved as a result of this merger
(Merger Information Page in Japanese)
Former districts of Kagawa Prefecture {{Kagawa-geo-stub