was a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
located in
Tone District,
Gunma Prefecture,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the village 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 5,025 and a
density of 18.02 persons per km
2. The total area was 278.90 km
2.
On February 13, 2005, Tone, along with the village of
Shirasawa (also from
Tone District), was merged into the expanded city of
Numata.
References
Dissolved municipalities of Gunma Prefecture
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