Kitaazumi-gun (Nagano)

Kitaazumi-gun ( Japanese 北 安 曇 郡 , German "North Azumi-gun") is a district ( gun ) in Nagano Prefecture on the Japanese main island of Honshū . It has an area of ​​544.54 km², 33,386 inhabitants and thus a population density of 61.3 inhabitants per km² (as of March 1, 2010). The abbreviation of the circle name is Hokuan. Kitaazumi-gun is divided into two parts by the county town ( shi ) Ōmachi area. Kitaazumi-gun includes a city ( machi ) and three villages ( mura ). In the southern part are the city of Ikeda and the village of Matsukawa . In the northern part are the villages of Hakuba and Otari .

history

Kitaazumi-gun was created on January 14, 1879 by dividing the old Azumi-gun into Kitaazumi-gun and Minamiazumi-gun (South Azumi-gun). The latter was dissolved in 2005 with the establishment of the independent city of Azumino . The seat of the then district administration was Ōmachi. On April 1, 1889, 17 villages belonged to Kitaazumi-gun, but on April 10, 1889 Ōmachi was named a city. On April 1, 1915, Ikeda was named a city. Before the major territorial reform of the 1950s, Kitaazumi-gun belonged to two cities and 15 villages. With the first major regional reform on July 1, 1954, Ōmachi became a district. Further communal amalgamations followed in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. In 1960 Kitaazumi-gun only had one town and five villages. The last territorial reform took place on January 1, 2006, when the villages of Miasa and Yasaka were merged with Ōmachi.