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was a
was a town
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located in Santō District, Niigata Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,131,009 (1 July 2023) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...
, Japan
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As of 2003, the town had an estimated population
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of 7,380 and a density
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of 368.08 persons per km2. The total area was 20.05 km2.
On January 1, 2006, Yoita, along with the city of Tochio
was a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1954.
As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 23,855 and the density
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, the town of Teradomari, and the village of Washima (all from Santō District), was merged into the expanded city of Nagaoka.
Transportation
Railway
Echigo Kotsu Nagaoka Line
was an old provinces of Japan, old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen Province, Uzen, Iwashiro Province, Iwashiro, Kōzuke Province, Kōzuke, Shinano Province, Shinano, and Etchū Province, ...
( :ja:越後交通長岡線) had been operated in the town until 1975.
Highway
*See also
*Yoita Domain
was a '' fudai'' feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was located in Echigo Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Yoita Jin'ya, located in what is now part of the city of Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture.
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References
Dissolved municipalities of Niigata Prefecture Nagaoka, Niigata {{Niigata-geo-stub