was a former
district
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in
Kagawa Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Pr ...
,
Japan
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. It included several towns in the eastern part of the prefecture.
The district and its towns were dissolved in the early 2000s, and are now covered by two cities:
*
Sanuki - formed from western part on April 1, 2002, by merging the towns of
ÅŒkawa,
Nagao,
Sangawa,
Shido and
Tsuda.
*
Higashikagawa - formed from eastern part on April 1, 2003, by merging the towns of Hiketa, ÅŒchi and Shirotori.
References
Former districts of Kagawa Prefecture
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