Chikushi-gun (Fukuoka)
Chikushi ( Japanese 筑紫 郡 , - gun ) was a district in the Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka from 1896 to 2018 .
As of October 1, 2017, it had 50,186 inhabitants on an area of 74.99 km². The last parish in the county since 1982 was Nakagawa , which became a district on October 1, 2018, thus extinguishing Chikushi County.
The district was created in 1896 through the merger of the districts of Naka ( 那 珂 ), Mushiroda ( 席 田 ) and Mikasa ( 御 笠 ) in the prefecture of Fukuoka / Chikuzen province . Initially it comprised two cities and 20 villages . In the 20th century, most of the area of Chikushi in the independent cities (- shi ) Fukuoka, Kasuga, Ōnojō and Dazaifu.
Numbered: Municipalities of the three forerunner districts after the introduction of today's municipality forms in 1889, the district administration was in the 1st village Ōno ( 大 野村 , Ōno-mura , today Ōno-jō-shi / "City of Burg Burgno "). *: the new independent city of Fukuoka ( Fukuoka-shi ), which has been separated from the Naka district as the Fukuoka District (Fukuoka-ku) since 1878 . In surface colors: today's municipalities or in blue: municipal areas unchanged since 1889.