was a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
located in
Futami District,
Hiroshima Prefecture,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
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 pl ...
of 1,965 and a
density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' (or ''d'') can also be u ...
of 23.66 persons per km
2. The total area was 83.04 km
2.
On April 1, 2004, Funo, along with the towns of
Kisa,
Mirasaka and
Miwa, the villages of
Kimita and
Sakugi (all from
Futami District), and the town of
Kōnu (from
Kōnu District), was merged with the expanded city of
Miyoshi 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 Miyoshi
Dissolved municipalities of Hiroshima Prefecture
Miyoshi, Hiroshima
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