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...

 located in Fukui

Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Fukui.- Prehistory :The Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, on the Sugiyama River within the city limits of Katsuyama, has yielded the Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis as well as an unnamed...

, 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 June 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population

Population

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 of 68,703 with 22,229 households

Household

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 and the density

Population density

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 of 810.65 persons per km². The total area is 84.75 km².

The city was founded on January 15, 1955.

Parks

Nishiyama koen (West Mountain Park) is particularly beautiful in springtime, when hundreds of azalea

Azalea

Azaleas are flowering shrubs comprising two of the eight subgenera of the genus Rhododendron, Pentanthera and Tsutsuji . Azaleas bloom in spring, their flowers often lasting several weeks...

s trees bloom on the slopes. The effect turns the park into a glorious island of pink blossoms in an otherwise drab industrial city.