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city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

located in

Yamaguchi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 Square kilometre, km2 (2,359 Square mile, sq mi). Y ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. As of April 2022, the city has an estimated

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of 58,978 and a population density of 470 persons per km². The total area is 132.99 km². The modern city of San'yō-Onoda was established on March 22, 2005, from the merger of the city of Onoda, Yamaguchi, Onoda, with the town of Sanyo, Yamaguchi, San'yō (from Asa District, Yamaguchi, Asa District). San'yō-Onoda is between Ube and Asa, and is largely an industrial town. It has a beach area called Kirara Beach, Yamaguchi, Kirara Beach, a manmade beach that has a few restaurants and a glass-making factory.

Education

Public University

*Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, San'yō-Onoda City University (formerly the Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi)

Sister cities

* Chichibu, Saitama,

since May 20, 1996 * Moreton Bay Region, Moreton Bay, Australia since August 18, 1992

Notable people from San'yō-Onoda

*Yohei Kurakawa, Japanese football player *Aoki Shūzō, former Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Foreign Minister in Meiji period Japan *Minoru Fujita, Puroresu, Japanese professional wrestler

References

External links

San'yō-Onoda official website

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