was a
village
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located in
Nei District,
Toyama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 993,848 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...
,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
population
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of 1,764 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 43.84 persons per km
2. The total area was 40.24 km
2.
On April 1, 2005, Hosoiri, along with the towns of
Ōsawano and
Ōyama (both from
Kaminiikawa District), the towns of
Fuchū and
Yatsuo, and the village of
Yamada (all from
Nei District), was merged into the expanded city of
Toyama.
References
External links
Toyama City official website
Dissolved municipalities of Toyama Prefecture
Toyama (city)
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