is a

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located in

Tokachi Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, 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 t ...

Hokkaido is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ...

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. There is a district with the same name in

Kamikawa Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, 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 ...

, see

Nakagawa (Teshio) District, Hokkaido is a district located in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. There is a district with the same name in Tokachi Subprefecture, see Nakagawa (Tokachi) District, Hokkaido. As of 2004, the district has an estimated population of 9,038 and a ...

. As of 2004, the district has an estimated

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of 46,499 and a

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of 28.34 persons per km². The total area is 1,640.88 km².

Towns

* Honbetsu * Ikeda * Makubetsu * Toyokoro

History

*1869 - Nakagawa District created as part of Tokachi Province *April 1, 1906 - Part of Tabikorai Village incorporated into Ōtsu Village, Tokachi District *April 1, 1925 - Part of Ikeda Village incorporated into Shihoro Village (now town), Katō District *April 1, 1926 - Part of Makubetsu Village incorporated into Taishō Village,

Kasai District Kasai District (, ) was a district of the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, named after the Kasai River. It was formed around 1885 and went through several large changes in extent in the years that followed. ...

*June 1, 1933 - Part of Ikeda Town incorporated into Shihoro Village, Katō District *April 1, 1948 - Part of Makubetsu Town incorporated into Taisho Village and Sarabetsu Village, Kasai District *April 1, 1955 - Nishiashoro Town merged with Ashoro Village, Ashoro District forming

Ashoro is a town located in Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 7,150 and a density of 5.1 persons per km2. The total area is 1,408.09 km2. It was the largest municipality in Japan ...

Town, Ashoro District *April 1, 1955 - Part of Ōtsu Village, Tokaichi District incorporated into Toyokoro Village *February 6, 2006 - the village of Chūrui, from Hiroo District, merged into the town of Makubetsu.

References

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