was a
village
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located in
Tone District
is a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of January 2015, the district had an estimated population of 34,946 and an area of 1,322.23 km2, with a population density of 26.4 people per square kilometer.
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,
Gunma Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushim ...
,
Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated
population
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of 5,025 and a
density
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of 18.02 persons per km
2. The total area was 278.90 km
2.
On February 13, 2005, Tone, along with the village of
Shirasawa (also from
Tone District
is a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of January 2015, the district had an estimated population of 34,946 and an area of 1,322.23 km2, with a population density of 26.4 people per square kilometer.
Towns and villages
* ...
), was merged into the expanded city of
Numata.
Dissolved municipalities of Gunma Prefecture
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