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
Kitakoma District,
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 787,592 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the n ...
,
Japan
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.
On November 1, 2004, Mukawa, along with the towns of
Hakushū,
Nagasaka,
Sutama and
Takane, and the villages of
Akeno and
Ōizumi (all from
Kitakoma District), was merged to create the city of
Hokuto.
Mukawa is the home of th
Yamataka Jindai Zakura cherry blossom tree, estimated to be nearly 2,000 years old.
Demographics
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
population
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...
of 3,301 people.
Geography
The village has a
density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' (or ''d'') can also be u ...
of . The total area was .
References
External links
Mukawa official website of Hokuto city(in Japanese)
Dissolved municipalities of Yamanashi Prefecture
Hokuto, Yamanashi
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