is a

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located in

Kagawa Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Pr ...

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 ...

. , the town had an estimated population of 26,449 in 10,963 households and a

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of 270 persons per km². The total area of the town is .

Geography

Miki is located in eastern Kagawa Prefecture on ten island of

Shikoku is the smallest of the List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ...

. The town area is long from north to south, and consists of hilly areas in the north, plains in the center, and mountainous areas in the south. It borders the prefectural capital, Takamatsu City, to the north, west, and southwest, Sanuki City to the east, and Mima City, Tokushima Prefecture to the southeast. From the northern part to the central and southern part, it is the basin of the Shinkawa River system, which originates from Mt. Kosen.

Neighbouring municipalities

Kagawa Prefecture * Sanuki *

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Tokushima Prefecture * Mima

Climate

Miki has a

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(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light snowfall. The average annual temperature in Miki is 15.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1606 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in January, at around 26.2 °C, and lowest in January, at around 5.0 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,Utazu population statistics
/ref> the population of Miki has remained relatively steady over the past half-century.

History

The area of Miki was part of ancient Sanuki Province. During the

Edo Period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

, the area was part of the holdings of

. Following the

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, the area was organized into villages with the creation of the modern municipalities system on February 15, 1890. The village of Hirai was raised to town status on April 1, 1919. The town of Miki was created on October 1, 1954 by merging the town of Hirai and the villages of Hikami, Kamiyama, Shimotakaoka and Tanaka. In 1956 the village of Ido also merged into Miki, but in 1959 residents in the northern part of Ido requested their portion be transferred to the town of Nagao (present-day Sanuki city).

Government

Miki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, making up nearly ...

town council of 16 members. Miki contributes one member to the Kagawa Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Kagawa 2nd district of the

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of the

Diet of Japan , transcription_name = ''Kokkai'' , legislature = 215th Session of the National Diet , coa_pic = Flag of Japan.svg , house_type = Bicameral , houses = , foundation=29 November 1890(), leader1_type ...

Economy

The local economy is based on admixture of agriculture (rice, strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes, and other agricultural products), food processing and light manufacturing.

Education

Miki has four public elementary schools and one public middle school operated by the town government, and one public high school operated by the Kagawa Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railways

Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad Kotoden Nagao Line * - - - - - -

Highways

Takamatsu Expressway * * *

References

External links

*
Miki official website

Towns in Kagawa Prefecture Miki, Kagawa {{Kagawa-geo-stub