Kiso District, Nagano

Kiso -gun ( Japanese:木 曽 郡) until May 1, 1968 Nishichikuma -gun ( Japanese:西 筑 摩 郡) is a county ( gun) in Nagano Prefecture on the Japanese main island of Honshu. It has an area of 1546.26 km ², 31 485 inhabitants and thus a population density of 20.4 inhabitants per km ² (as of March 1, 2010). It is composed of three towns ( machi ) and three villages ( mura ). These are Agematsu, Kiso- machi, Kiso -mura Nagiso and, Okuwa and Otaki.

History

Kiso -gun was created under the name Nishichikuma -gun ( "West - Chikuma -gun " ) by dividing Chikuma -gun. The number generated by this division other half is called Higashichikuma -gun ( "East- Chikuma -gun "). Seat of the then-existing district administration was the village Fukushima. Following the establishment of the modern municipal system on April 1, 1889 Nishichikuma -gun had 16 villages. On May 27, 1893 Fukushima became a town. On September 1, 1922, the village was renamed Komagane to the city and in Agematsu. The first area of ​​reform after the Second World War took place on 1 June 1948, when the village was Nagawa the Hakuba -gun slammed. Unlike many other counties Nishichikuma -gun was hardly affected by the large local government reform in the 1950s. Only two mergers have taken place. On October 14, 1958, part of the village Kamiya was added to the village of Yamaguchi. The next day, the rest of Kamiya was merged with Nakatsugawa in Gifu Prefecture. A greater reduction in the number of municipalities was held in the framework of two mergers only in the 1960s. In 1968 Nishichikuma -gun three cities and eight villages. On 1 May 1968, the renaming of Nishichikuma -gun, Kiso -gun was. In 2005, the launch of three municipal mergers, whereby the number of Kiso -gun belonging to municipalities was reduced to the current number.

Independent cities ( shi): Azumino | Chikuma | Chino | Iida | Iiyama | Ina | Komagane | Komoro | Matsumoto | Nagano ( administrative seat ) | Nakano | Okaya | Ōmachi | Saku | Shiojiri | Chino | Suzaka | Tomi | Ueda

Chiisagata -gun Aoki | Nagawa | Hanishina -gun Sakaki | Higashichikuma -gun Asahi | Chikuhoku | Ikusaka | Omi | Yamagata | kamiina -gun Iijima | Minamiminowa | Minowa | Miyada | Nakagawa | Tatsuno | Shinano -gun Iizuna | Ogawa | Shinano | Kamitakai -gun Obuse | Takayama | Kiso -gun Agematsu | Kiso -mura | Kiso- machi | Nagiso | Okuwa | Otaki | Hakuba -gun Hakuba | Ikeda | Matsukawa | Otari | Kitasaku -gun Karuizawa | Miyota | Tateshina | Minamisaku -gun Kawakami | Kitaaiki | Koumi | Minamiaiki | Minamimaki | Shimoina -gun Achi | Anan | Hiraya | Matsukawa | Neba | Oshika | Shimojo | Takagi | Takamori | Tenryu | Toyooka | Urugi | Yasuoka | Shimominochi - gun Sakae | Yamanouchi-machi: Kijimadaira | Nozawa Onsen | Yamanouchi | Suwa -gun Fujimi | Hara | Shimosuwa

  • Nagano Prefecture
  • District in Japan
List of towns in Japan List of villages in Japan Agematsu (Nagano) Kiso, Nagano (town) Nagiso (Nagano) Kiso, Nagano (village) Higashichikuma District, Nagano Kitaazumi District, Nagano Nakatsugawa, Gifu Cities of Japan Azumino, Nagano Chikuma (Nagano) Chino (Nagano) Iida, Nagano Iiyama (Nagano) Ina (Nagano) Komagane, Nagano Komoro, Nagano Matsumoto, Nagano Nagano, Nagano Nakano (Nagano) Okaya, Nagano Saku (Nagano) Shiojiri, Nagano Suwa (Nagano) Suzaka, Nagano Ueda, Nagano Chiisagata District, Nagano Aoki (Nagano) Nagawa (Nagano) Hanishina District, Nagano Sakaki (Nagano) Asahi, Nagano Chikuhoku (Nagano) Ikusaka (Nagano) Omi (Nagano) Yamagata (Nagano) Iijima (Nagano) Minowa (Nagano) Miyada (Nagano) Nakagawa (Nagano) Tatsuno (Nagano) Kamiminochi District, Nagano Iizuna (Nagano) Ogawa (Nagano) Shinano (Nagano) Kamitakai District, Nagano Obuse (Nagano) Takayama (Nagano) Kitasaku District, Nagano Minamisaku District, Nagano Shimoina District, Nagano Matsukawa, Nagano (Shimoina)
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