was a former

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in Shōzu District,

Kagawa Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 (as of 2020) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, smallest prefecture by geographic area at . Kagawa Pr ...

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. The town was created in 1949 by merging

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on the eastern part of

Shōdoshima Shōdoshima or is an island located in the Seto Inland Sea, Inland Sea of Japan. The name means "Island of Azuki bean, Small Beans". There are two towns on the island: Tonoshō, Kagawa, Tonoshō and Shodoshima, Kagawa, Shōdoshima, composing the ...

, an island in the

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. In 2006, Uchinomi was dissolved and merged with the town of Ikeda (also from Shōzu District) to create the new town of

. The former villages of Nishimura, Kusakabe, Yasuda, Nōma, Sakate, and Fukuda belonged to Uchinomi.

References

External links

Official website of Shōdoshima Town
(some English content) Dissolved municipalities of Kagawa Prefecture {{Kagawa-geo-stub