was a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
located in
Oki District,
Shimane Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km2. Shimane Prefecture borders Yamag ...
,
Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using ...
of 520 and a
density
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of 28.03 persons per km
2. The total area was 18.55 km
2.
On October 1, 2004, Fuse, along with the town of
Saigō, and the villages of
Goka
260px, Nakanoshima Park
is a town located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 8,162 in 2987 households and a population density of 353 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 34.7%. ...
and
Tsuma (all from
Oki District), was merged to create the town of
Okinoshima Okinoshima may refer to:
*Oki Islands, a group of Japanese islands historically called Okinoshima
* Okinoshima, Shimane, a town on Dōgo Island, Japan
* Okinoshima (Fukuoka)
is an island off the coast of Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan. It is considere ...
.
Dissolved municipalities of Shimane Prefecture
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