was a town located in
Ishikawa District,
Ishikawa Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,096,721 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,186 Square kilometre, km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Pr ...
,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated
population
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of 12,918 and a
density
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of 1,416.45 persons per km
2. The total area was 9.12 km
2.
On February 1, 2005, Mikawa, along with the city of
Mattō, the town of
Tsurugi, and the villages of
Kawachi,
Oguchi,
Shiramine,
Torigoe and
Yoshinodani (all from
Ishikawa District), was merged to create the city of
Hakusan and no longer exists as an independent
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
.
A new joint-venture car assembly factory is scheduled to be built in the outskirts.
References
External links
Official website of Hakusan
Dissolved municipalities of Ishikawa Prefecture
Hakusan, Ishikawa
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