was a
town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
located in
Katori District,
Chiba Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the KantÅ region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama ...
,
Japan
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.
Yamada Town was established on August 1, 1954 through the merger of town of Fuma with the villages of Yatsu and Yamakura.
On March 27, 2006, Yamada, along with the city of
Sawara, and the towns of
Kurimoto and
Omigawa (both from
Katori District),
was merged to create the city of
Katori,
and thus no longer exists as an independent
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
.
In 2003 (the last data available before its merger into Katori), the town had an estimated
population
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...
of 11,017 and a
population density
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of 213.75 persons per km
2. Its total area was 51.54 km
2.
References
External links
Katori official site
Dissolved municipalities of Chiba Prefecture
Katori, Chiba
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