3-503: Taihei ( 大平村 , Taihei-mura ) was a village located in Chikujō District , Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan . As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 4,075 and a density of 83.23 persons per km. The total area was 48.96 km. On October 11, 2005, Taihei, along with the village of Shin'yoshitomi (also from Chikujō District ), was merged to create the town of Kōge . This Fukuoka Prefecture location article
6-846: A local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural district ( 郡 , gun ) , which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As a result of mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is decreasing. As of 2006, 13 prefectures no longer have any villages: Tochigi (since March 20, 2006), Fukui (since March 3, 2006), Ishikawa (since March 1, 2005), Shizuoka (since July 1, 2005), Hyōgo (since April 1, 1999), Mie (since November 1, 2005), Shiga (since January 1, 2005), Hiroshima (since November 5, 2004), Yamaguchi (since March 20, 2006), Ehime (since January 16, 2005), Kagawa (since April 1, 1999), Nagasaki (since October 1, 2005), and Saga (since March 20, 2006). Atarashiki-mura (which
9-484: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of villages in Japan A village ( 村 , mura ) is a local administrative unit in Japan . It is a local public body along with prefecture ( 県 , ken , or other equivalents) , city ( 市 , shi ) , and town ( 町 , chō , sometimes machi ) . Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than
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