was a

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located in Nakakoma 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 ...

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. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 16,934 and a

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of 1,678.30 persons per km². The total area was 10.09 km². On February 20, 2006, Tatomi, along with the town of Tamaho (also from Nakakoma District), and the village of

Toyotomi The was a Japanese clan that ruled over the Japanese before the Edo period. Unity and conflict The most influential figure within the Toyotomi was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three "unifiers of Japan". Oda Nobunaga was another primar ...

(from Higashiyatsushiro District), was merged to create the city of Chūō.

References

External links

Chūō official website
Dissolved municipalities of Yamanashi Prefecture Chūō, Yamanashi {{Yamanashi-geo-stub