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is a district of the city of
Kamo official website (archived)
in Japanese Kizugawa, Kyoto Dissolved municipalities of Kyoto Prefecture {{Kyoto-geo-stub
is a district of the city of Kizugawa
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is a city located in southern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 79,866 in 33183 households and a population density of 940 persons per km2. The total area of the city is .
Geography
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, Kyoto Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Kyoto Prefecture has a population of 2,561,358 () and has a geographic area of . Kyoto Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the northeast, Shiga Prefecture ...
, 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 ...
. It was a town in its own right in Sōraku District until 2007.
Kamo and the towns of Kizu and Yamashiro (all from Sōraku District) merged to create the city of Kizugawa on March 12, 2007. As of February 1, 2007, prior to the merger, Kamo had an estimated population of 15,907 and a density of 430.27 persons per km2. The total area was 36.97 km2.
Between the years of 740 to 744, Kamo had been the capital of Japan
The capital of Japan is Tokyo."About Japan"
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Kuni-kyō
, was the capital of Japan between 740 and 744, whose imperial palace (恭仁宮 ''Kuni-kyū'' or ''Kuni no miya'') was built what is now the Kamo neighborhood of the city of Kizugawa in Kyoto Prefecture. The ruins of the palace overlap with th ...
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External links
Kamo official website (archived)
in Japanese Kizugawa, Kyoto Dissolved municipalities of Kyoto Prefecture {{Kyoto-geo-stub