was a
town
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
located in
Iwata District,
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Pref ...
,
Japan
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.
At the time of its merger, the town had an estimated
population
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of 5,394 and a
density
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of 32 persons per km
2. The total area was 168.53 km
2.
On July 1, 2005, Sakuma, along with the cities of
Tenryū and
Hamakita, the town of
Haruno (from
Shūchi District), the towns of
Hosoe,
Inasa and
Mikkabi (all from
Inasa District), the town of
Misakubo, the village of
Tatsuyama (all from
Iwata District), and the towns of
Maisaka and
Yūtō (both from
Hamana District), was merged into the expanded city of
Hamamatsu
is a Cities of Japan, city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 780,128 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, with a population density of over the t ...
,
and is now part of
Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu City.
Sakuma is the location of the
Sakuma Dam, an important
hydroelectric
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power plant, and a
frequency converter
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station that permits exchange of power between Japan's two different
power systems
IBM Power Systems is a family of server computers from IBM that are based on its Power processors. It was created in 2008 as a merger of the System p and System i product lines.
History
IBM had two distinct POWER- and PowerPC-based hardwar ...
. Japan's grids are also connected by two other stations, located at
Higashi-Shimizu and
Shin Shinano.
See also
*
Energy in Japan
References
Dissolved municipalities of Hamamatsu
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