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 Higashimatsuura District,

Saga Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of roughly 780,000 and has a geographic area of . Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasaki Prefect ...

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. Kitahata was established i
1889
(Meiji 22) as a union of small hamlets. As of 2003, the village had an estimated

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of 4,679 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

of 176.03 persons per km². The total area was 26.58 km². On January 1, 2005, Kitahata, along with the towns of

Chinzei The branch, also called the Chinzei Doctrine (鎮西義), is one of the two largest branches of Jōdo-shū Buddhism (the second being Seizan). The tradition traces itself to Benchō (a.k.a. Shōkō Shōnin), a disciple of Hōnen, but it was f ...

, Hamatama,

Hizen was an old province of Japan in the area of the Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. It was sometimes called , with Higo Province. Hizen bordered on the provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo. The province was included in Saikaidō. It did not includ ...

, Kyūragi, Ōchi and Yobuko (all from Higashimatsuura District), was merged into the expanded city of

Karatsu is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Its name, formed from the Japanese word roots 唐 ''kara'' (China, or continental East Asia in general), and 津 ''tsu'' (port), signifies its historical importance as an ancie ...

. The town hosts th
Karatsu City Hospital Kitahata
Kitahata has

It also runs th
Kitahata Furusato Summer Festival
in July.

References

Kitahata Village History, Vol 1, 1961
(北波多村史)
Kitahata Village History, Vol 3, 1963
(北波多村史)
Kitahata Village History: A Step toward Buraku Liberation Kitahata Village History, 1986
(北波多村部落史: 部落解放への步み)

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