was a

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located in Uda District,

Nara Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the ...

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. As of 2005, the town had an estimated

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of 8,647 and a

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of 182.27 persons per km². The total area was 47.44 km². On January 1, 2006, Ōuda, along with the towns of Haibara and Utano (all from Uda District), was merged to create the city of Uda. The town of Ōuda lies in a valley between two long mountain ranges in northeastern

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. A three-mile long stretch of national routes 166 and 370 in the southern part of the town is where most of the businesses and homes are clustered. A large portion of flat land north on route 370 is less densely populated, covered mostly by rice fields. A large ''

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'', or Japanese Gate, rises out of the rice paddies. File:Ouda.jpg, File:Ouda_outskirts.jpg, The outskirts of Ōuda

References

Dissolved municipalities of Nara Prefecture Populated places disestablished in 2006 2006 disestablishments in Japan Uda, Nara {{Nara-geo-stub