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Villages of Japan
A village (村 mura or son) is a local administrative unit in Japan.
It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city (shi), and town (cho). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
It is larger than an actual settlement, being in actuality a subdivision of a rural district, districts are subdivided into towns and villages, with no overlap, and no uncovered area.
See also: Municipality of Japan, Japanese addressing system.
Prefectures without villages
(As of January 16, 2005)
- Hyōgo
- Hiroshima
- Kagawa
- Shiga (the village of Kutsuki merged with several other towns to form the new city of Takashima on January 1, 2005)
- Ehime (several recent mergers, the last of which was on January 16, 2005)
Prefectures with only one village
(As of January 16, 2005)
- Kanagawa (Kiyokawa, Aikō District)
- Kyōto (Minamiyamashiro, Soraku District)
- Ōsaka (Chihayaakasaka, Minamikawachi District)
- Tottori (Hiezu, Saihaku District)
- Nagasaki (Ōshima, Kitamatsuura District)
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