Kyoto Prefecture

The Kyoto Prefecture (Japanese京都 府, Kyoto - fu, Kyoto or Kyoto mostly in German ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai area and on the island of Honshu.

Geography

The Kyoto Prefecture is located in the center of the Japanese archipelago and takes place in terms of area among all the 31 Japanese prefectures one. Your North Coast is located on the Sea of ​​Japan. To the northeast lies the Fukui Prefecture, to the east of the prefectures of Shiga and Mie prefectures in the south Osaka and Nara, and to the west Hyōgo.

Politics and Administration

  • LDP: 26
  • DPJ: 14
  • JCP: 11
  • Kōmeitō: 5
  • Kyoto Sosei forum: 1
  • Ishin: 1

In the third term governor of Kyoto is the former official Keiji Yamada, since 2011, president of the National Governor Conference. He was first in 2002 as a candidate of the major parties, with around 90 thousand votes chosen ahead of a CPY - NSP -supported candidates and last re-elected in April 2010. In the regular 60 -strong Prefecture Parliament after the 2011 elections was the Liberal Democratic Party with 25 seats strongest party, the Democratic Party won 15 seats, the JCP and the eleven Kōmeitō five.

In the national parliament Kyoto is by six MPs in the House - 2012 four Liberal Democrats and two Democrats in the election - and four deputies represented in the House of Lords, after the 2010 elections and 2013, two Liberal Democrats, a Democrat and a Communist. Kyoto developed in the postwar period to the stronghold of the Communist Party of Japan; after the introduction of the individual constituencies for the House of Commons, however, they failed to win a more direct mandates in national elections since the turn of the millennium there. In the Upper House election in 2013 since 1998, she won one of the two seats of Kyoto for the first time.

The financial position of the prefecture is located in the national comparison in the upper center, in fiscal year 2007, the " financial strength index " was ( zaiseiryoku Shisu ) Kyoto 0.59.

Administrative divisions

Independent cities (市shi )

  • Seirei shitei toshi ( " city by decree ' ) Kyoto, the seat of the prefectural government
  • Ayabe
  • Fukuchiyama
  • Jōyō
  • Kameoka
  • Kizugawa
  • Kyotanabe
  • Kyotango
  • Maizuru
  • Miyazu
  • Muko
  • Nagaokakyo
  • Nantan
  • Uji
  • Yawata

Counties (郡, gun)

List of districts of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as their towns (町, chō ) and villages (村, mura ).

  • Funai Kyōtamba
  • Kumiyama
  • Oyamazaki
  • Soraku Kasagi
  • Minamiyamashiro
  • Seika
  • Wazuka
  • Ujitawara
  • Ine
  • Yosano

Byodo -in Temple in Uji

Amanohashidate

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