is 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, municip ...

located in

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 t ...

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 ...

. As of the Aso and

Yamato was originally the area around today's Sakurai, Nara, Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a Names of Japan, name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial ...

mergers (but with 2003 population data), the district has an estimated

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of 40,841 and a

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of 58.1 persons per square kilometer. The total area is 703.01 km². The

Aso clan The Aso clan (阿蘇) is a Japanese clan associated with Aso Shrine. They descend from Kamuyaimimi. The clan were originally Kuni no miyatsukoMatsunaga Naomichi: Kuni no miyatsuko', Encyclopedia of Shinto, retrieved 25 October 2023 but after th ...

comes from it

Towns and villages

* Minamioguni * Oguni * Takamori *

Minamiaso 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 . ...

* Nishihara * Ubuyama

Mergers

*On February 11, 2005 the old town of Aso absorbed the town of

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, and the village of Namino to become the new

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

of Aso. *On February 11, 2005 the town of Soyō merged with the town of

Yabe was a village located in Yame District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Yabe is located at 330m above sea level. The average temperature is 14 °C and the average annual precipitation is 2,706mm. As of 2006, the village had an estimated popula ...

, and the village of Seiwa, both from Kamimashiki District, to form the new town of

(in Kamimashiki District). *On February 13, 2005 the villages of Chōyō, Hakusui and Kugino merged to form the new village of

References

Districts in Kumamoto Prefecture Aso clan {{Kumamoto-geo-stub