is a city

Cities of Japan

||A is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as and , with the difference that they are not a component of...

 in Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Yamaguchi, in the center of the prefecture. The largest city, however, is Shimonoseki.- History :...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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As of 2003, the city has an estimated population

Population

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 of 53,082 and the density

Population density

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 of 594.02 persons per km². The total area is 89.36 km².

The city was founded on November 3, 1939, being formed by the merger of the former Kudamatsu town and the villages of Hanaoka, Kubo, and Suetake-minami. Each of these were previously part of Tsuno District

Tsuno District, Yamaguchi

' is a former district of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Until April 20, 2003, it consisted of a single town, Kano. On April 21, 2003, Kano was merged with the town of Kumage, from Kumage District, and the cities of Tokuyama, Shinnan'yō, to form the new city of Shūnan and the district was dissolved....

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External links

• Kudamatsu official website