was a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
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located in
Hiraka District,
Akita Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its geographic area is 1 ...
,
Japan.
In 2003, the town has an estimated
population
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of 7,757 and a
density
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of 75.88 persons per km
2. The total area was 102.23 km
2.
On October 1, 2005, Ōmori, along with the towns of
Hiraka,
Jūmonji,
Masuda and
Omonogawa; and the villages of
Sannai and
Taiyū (all from
Hiraka District), was merged into the expanded city of
Yokote.
External links
Yokote official website
Dissolved municipalities of Akita Prefecture
Yokote, Akita
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