Fuse, Shimane

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

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of 520 and a

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of 28.03 persons per km². The total area was 18.55 km². 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 {{Shimane-geo-stub