Chōyō, Kumamoto
was a village located in Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 5,436 and a population density of 140.21 persons per km2. The total area was 38.77 km2. On February 13, 2005, Chōyō, along with the villages of Hakusui and Kugino (all from Aso District), was merged to create the village of Minamiaso and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' .... External links Official website of Minamiaso Dissolved municipalities of Kumamoto Prefecture Minamiaso, Kumamoto {{Kumamoto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Villages In Japan
A is a Local government, local administrative unit in Japan.Japan’s Local Government System Tokyo Metropolitan Government It is a local public body along with , , and . Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than a local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural , which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As a result of merger and dissolution of municipalities of Japan, mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is decreasing. As of 2006, 13 prefectures no longer have any villages: Tochigi Prefecture, Tochigi (since March 20, 2006), Fukui Prefecture, Fukui (since March 3, 2006), Ishikawa Prefecture, Ishikawa (since March 1, 2005), Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka (since July 1, 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aso District, Kumamoto
is a Districts of Japan, district located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of the Aso, Kumamoto, Aso and Yamato, Kumamoto, Yamato mergers (but with 2003 population data), the district has an estimated population of 40,841 and a population density, density of 58.1 persons per square kilometer. The total area is 703.01 km2. The Aso clan comes from it Towns and villages *Minamioguni, Kumamoto, Minamioguni *Oguni, Kumamoto, Oguni *Takamori, Kumamoto, Takamori *Minamiaso, Kumamoto, Minamiaso *Nishihara, Kumamoto, Nishihara *Ubuyama, Kumamoto, Ubuyama Mergers *On February 11, 2005 the old town of Aso, Kumamoto, Aso absorbed the town of Ichinomiya, Kumamoto, Ichinomiya, and the village of Namino, Kumamoto, Namino to become the new cities of Japan, city of Aso, Kumamoto, Aso. *On February 11, 2005 the town of Soyō, Kumamoto, Soyō merged with the town of Yabe, Kumamoto, Yabe, and the village of Seiwa, Kumamoto, Seiwa, both from Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto, Kamimashiki Distri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kumamoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to the northeast, Miyazaki Prefecture to the southeast, and Kagoshima Prefecture to the south. Kumamoto is the capital and largest city of Kumamoto Prefecture, with other major cities including Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Yatsushiro, Amakusa, Kumamoto, Amakusa, and Tamana, Kumamoto, Tamana. Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of Kyūshū on the coast of the Ariake Sea, across from Nagasaki Prefecture, with the mainland separated from the East China Sea by the Amakusa Archipelago. Kumamoto Prefecture is home to Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan and among the largest in the world, with its peak above sea level. History Historically, the area was called Higo Province; and the province was renamed Kumamoto during the Meij ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Population
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, Race (human categorization), race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of Sexual reproduction, interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Population Density
Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (other), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopulation Density Geography.about.com. March 2, 2011. Retrieved on December 10, 2011. Biological population densities Population density is population divided by total land area, sometimes including seas and oceans, as appropriate. Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and further reduce fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it. Examples of the causes of reduced fertility in low population densities are: * Increased problems with locating sexual mates * Increased inbreeding Human densities Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometre" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hakusui, Kumamoto
was a village located in Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 4,523 and a population density of 94.45 persons per km2. The total area was 47.89 km2. On February 13, 2005, Hakusui, along with the villages of Chōyō and Kugino (all from Aso District), was merged to create the village of Minamiaso and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' .... References External links Official website of Minamiaso Dissolved municipalities of Kumamoto Prefecture Minamiaso, Kumamoto {{Kumamoto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kugino, Kumamoto
was a village located in Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 2,566 and a population density of 50.67 persons per km2. The total area was 50.64 km2. On February 13, 2005, Kugino, along with the villages of Chōyō and Hakusui (all from Aso District), was merged to create the village of Minamiaso and no longer exists as an independent municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' .... External links Official website of Minamiaso Dissolved municipalities of Kumamoto Prefecture Minamiaso, Kumamoto {{Kumamoto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Minamiaso, Kumamoto
290px, Minamiaso Village Hall is a village in Aso District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. , the village had an estimated population of 10,071 in 4821 households, and a population density of 73 persons per km2. The total area of the village is . Geography Minamiaso Village is located in the southern part of the Aso Caldera, in the Nango Valley between the Five Peaks of Aso and the outer rim of the volcano. On both sides of the Shirakawa River, which runs from east to west through the urban center, are residential and commercial areas, and cultivated land. Most of the area above 600 meters in elevation is covered by forests. Neighboring municipalities Kumamoto Prefecture * Aso * Nishihara * Ōzu * Takamori *Yamato Climate Minamiaso has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa'') with hot summers and cool winters. Precipitation is high, but there is a pronounced difference between the wetter summers and drier winters. The average annual temperature in Mi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Municipalities Of Japan
Japan has three levels of governments: national, prefectural, and municipal. The nation is divided into 47 prefectures. Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total as of January 2014. There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns, villages and special wards of Tokyo (). In Japanese, this system is known as , where each kanji in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. Some designated cities also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards. But, unlike the special wards of Tokyo, these wards are not municipalities. Status The status of a municipality, if it is a village, town or city, is decided by the prefectural government. Generally, a village or town can be promoted to a city when its population increases above fifty thousand, and a city can (but need not) be demoted to a town or village when its population decreases below fifty thousand. The least-populated city, Utashinai, Hokkaid� ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dissolved Municipalities Of Kumamoto Prefecture
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