Minamiaizu District in Fukushima Prefecture

is a

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located in

Fukushima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,771,100 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miyagi Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture ...

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. It makes up the southern third of the

Aizu is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east. As of October 1, 2010, it had a population of 291,838. The princ ...

region in western Fukushima Prefecture. As of 2003, the district has an estimated

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of 33,533 and a

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of 14.32 persons per km². The total area is 2,341.64 km². It is the least populated part of Aizu.

Towns and villages

Minamiaizu is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 15,158 in 6,575 households, and a population density of 17 persons per km2. The total area of the town was . Geography Minamiaizu is located in the mo ...

* Shimogō * Tadami * Hinoemata

Merger

* On 20 March 2006 the town of Tajima, and the villages of Tateiwa, Ina and Nangō merged to form the new town of

References

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