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Gamō District, Shiga
is a Districts of Japan, district located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of September 1, 2011, the district has an estimated population of 35,629 and a population density, density of 220 persons per km2. The total area is 162.15 km2. Towns *Hino, Shiga, Hino *Ryūō, Shiga, Ryūō Merger *On January 1, 2006 the town of Gamō, Shiga, Gamō merged into the city of Higashiōmi, Shiga, Higashiōmi. *On March 21, 2010 the town of Azuchi, Shiga, Azuchi merged into the city of Ōmihachiman, Shiga, Ōmihachiman. Transition Light blue autonomies are Gamō District's towns, deep blue autonomies are Gamō District's villages, and gray autonomies are others. References Districts in Shiga Prefecture {{Shiga-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamo District In Shiga Prefecture
Gamo may refer to: * Gamo (airgun manufacturer), a Spanish airgun manufacturer * Gamō clan (蒲生氏, Gamō-shi), a Japanese clan which claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan * Gamo people, an Ethiopian ethnic group * Gamō, Shiga (蒲生町, Gamō-chō), a former town located in Gamō District, Shiga, Japan * Gamō Station (蒲生駅, Gamō-eki), a station on the Tōbu Railway located in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan * Gamō (surname) * Gamō-yonchōme Station is a train station on the Osaka Metro Imazatosuji Line and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan. Lines Gamo Yonchome Station is served by the Osaka Metro Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line (station number N23) and Imaza ... (蒲生四丁目駅, Gamō-Yonchōme-eki), a train station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Imazatosuji Line and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line * Spanish frigate ''El Gamo'', an 1801 32-gun Spanish Navy frigate * Gamo or Gamou, a Serer religious festival {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Japan
In Japan, a is composed of one or more rural municipalities (Towns of Japan, towns or Villages of Japan, villages) within a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture. Districts have no governing function, and are only used for geographic or statistical purposes such as mailing addresses. Cities of Japan, Cities are not part of districts. Historically, districts have at times functioned as an administrative unit in Japan, administrative unit. From 1878 to 1921The governing law, the district code (''gunsei'', 郡制Entry for the 1890 originalanentry for the revised 1899 ''gunsei''in the National Diet Library ''Nihon hōrei sakuin''/"Index of Japanese laws and ordinances"), was abolished in 1921, but the district assemblies (''gunkai'', 郡会) existed until 1923, the district chiefs (''gunchō'', 郡長) and district offices (''gun-yakusho'', 郡役所) until 1926. district governments were roughly equivalent to a County (United States), county of the United States, ranking below Prefectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiga Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,398,972 as of 1 February 2025 and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the northeast, Mie Prefecture to the southeast, and Kyoto Prefecture to the west. Ōtsu is the capital and largest city of Shiga Prefecture, with other major cities including Kusatsu, Nagahama, and Higashiōmi. Shiga Prefecture encircles Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater lake in Japan, and 37% of the total land area is designated as Natural Parks, the highest of any prefecture. Shiga Prefecture's southern half is located adjacent to the former capital city of Kyoto and forms part of Greater Kyoto, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Japan. Shiga Prefecture is home to Ōmi beef, the Eight Views of Ōmi, and Hikone Castle, one of four national treasure castles in Japan. History Shiga was known as Ōmi Province or Gōshū bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Hino, Shiga
file:Blumen Hugel, Nishioji, Hino-cho, Shiga-ken, ブルーメの丘 - panoramio (2).jpg, 260px, Blumen Hugel is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Gamō District, Shiga, Gamō District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 21,149 in 8467 households and a population density of 180 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . Geography Hino is located in east-central Shiga Prefecture in a large isolated rural area nestled beside the Suzuka Mountains with the town's tallest peak being Mt. Watamuki (1110m). Surrounding municipalities Shiga Prefecture *Higashiōmi *Kōka, Shiga, Kōka Climate Hino has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Hino is 13.1 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1673 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.9 °C, and lowest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūō, Shiga
260px, Namura Jinja Haiden is a town located in Gamō District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 11,786 in 4499 households and a population density of 260 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . Geography Ryūō is located in the center of Shiga Prefecture. The Hino River and its 3 tributaries, Zenkōji-gawa, Sofu-gawa, and Sōshirō-gawa, run on the flat land between Mount Kagami on the west and Mount Yukino on the east. Hilly regions cover the southern area in and out of Ryūō. * Mountains: Kagami-yama (also called Western Ryūō-zan), Yukinoyama (also called Eastern Ryūō-zan) * Rivers: Hino, Zenkōji, Sofu, Sōshirō Neighbouring municipalities Shiga Prefecture *Higashiōmi *Koka *Konan *Ōmihachiman * Yasu Climate Aishō has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Aishō is 14.8 °C. The average annual rainf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamō, Shiga
was a towns of Japan, town located in Gamō District, Shiga, Gamō District, Shiga Prefecture, Shiga, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 14,710 and a population density, density of 424.65 persons per km2. The total area was 34.64 km2. On January 1, 2006, Gamō, along with the town of Notogawa, Shiga, Notogawa (from Kanzaki District, Shiga, Kanzaki District), was merged into the expanded city of Higashiōmi, Shiga, Higashiōmi. Sister city * Buyeo County, Buyeo-gun Jangam, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea References External linksHigashiōmi official website Dissolved municipalities of Shiga Prefecture {{Shiga-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azuchi, Shiga
was a town located in Gamō District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,217 and a density of 502.76 persons per km2. The total area was 24.30 km2. On March 21, 2010, Azuchi was merged into the expanded city of Ōmihachiman. The town is well known for the ruins of Azuchi Castle of Oda Nobunaga, the 16th century ruler of Japan, and once depicted on the now lost Azuchi Screens. The period in the history of Japan approximately between 1568 and 1603 is called Azuchi-Momoyama period. Azuchi Castle ruins remain for the temple Soken-ji donated by Oda Nobunaga. He also established the oldest Christian Seminary in Japan, and its ruins are now a small public park. Transportation Azuchi Station of The Biwako Line The is the nickname used by the operator of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) to refer to the portion of the Tōkaidō Main Line (between Maibara Station and Kyoto Station) and the Hokuriku Main Line (between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
