Gifu Prefecture

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Gifu-ken
岐阜 県
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Basic data
Administrative headquarters : Gifu
Region : Chūbu
Main island : Honshu
Area : 10,621.29  km²
Water content: 0.2  %
Residents : 1,991,390
(June 1, 2019)
Population density : 187 inhabitants per km²
Counties : 9
Municipalities : 42
ISO 3166-2 : JP-21
Governor : Hajime Furuta
Website: www.pref.gifu.lg.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Flag of Gifu Prefecture
Prefecture tree : Japanese yew
Prefecture flower : Astragalus sinicus
Vogel prefecture : Ptarmigan
Fish prefecture : Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis
Prefecture song : Gifu-kenmin no uta
("Song of the Citizens of Gifu")

The Gifu Prefecture ( Japanese 岐阜 県 Gifu-ken ) is one of the prefectures of Japan . It is located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshū . The seat of the prefecture administration is the city of the same name Gifu . In the area of ​​today's Gifu Prefecture, the two provinces of Hida (northern part, capital: Takayama) and Mino (southern part, capital: Kasamatsu) existed until the Meiji period .

geography

Gifu is one of the inland prefectures with no direct access to the sea. Natural boundaries include the Kiso Mountains (Central Alps), the Hida Mountains (Northern Alps) and the Hida Highlands / Plateau (Hida kōchi) on the border with Nagano and Toyama, and the Ryōhaku Mountains (divided into Kaetsu- and Etsumi Mountains) on the borders with Ishikawa and Fukui. In the southwest, the Ibuki and Yōrō mountains separate Gifu from Shiga and Mie. The tributaries of the Kisogawa (also known as the “Japanese Rhine” on the middle course), which partially marks the border with Aichi, gather in the Nōbi plain , which opens to the south . The highest point of Gifu is the Oku-Hotaka-dake on the prefecture border to Nagano with 3190 m. The city of Kaizu in the southwest, where the Kisogawa and its tributaries ( Nagaragawa and Ibigawa ), which are largely separated by flood protection measures over the centuries, leave the prefecture shortly before the confluence, already extends to sea level.

Physical card Regional division of the prefecture
Physical card
Regional division of the prefecture

In regional subdivisions, Gifu is usually assigned to the Tōkai region (with Aichi and mostly Mie , often Shizuoka ), the south of Gifu with the capital Gifu is part of the Chūkyō metropolitan area around the central Japanese metropolis of Nagoya . Sometimes Tōkai is also combined with the rural prefectures in Hokuriku , some of which are more towards the western Japanese center Keihanshin (Kyōto-Ōsaka-Kobe), as the Tōkai-Hokuriku region. Unambiguously (but impractical in a number of contexts), the central Japanese heartland Tōkai, the more western Japanese Hokuriku and, depending on the context, the Kōshin'etsu , which faces the eastern Japanese center of Tokyo, together form the central part ( Chūbu ) of the Japanese main island Honshū.

Gifu itself is usually divided into five regions, which fall back on the ancient provincial division:

  • the Seinō region ( 西 濃 , i.e. West Mino; purple in the picture) in the far west,
  • the Gifu region (green) around the capital,
  • the region of Chūnō ( 中 濃 , i.e. Central Mino; blue) east of it,
  • the region Tōnō ( 東 濃 , i.e. East Mino; red) in the southeast and
  • the region of Hida (brown) in the northeast in the area of ​​the province of Hida.

The Chūbu-Sangaku and Hakusan National Parks and the quasi-national park Hida-Kisogawa extend over parts of Gifu ; The Ibi-Sekigahara-Yōrō-Quasi-National Park is located in the very prefecture. There are also 15 prefectural nature parks in Gifu . Together, the nature parks in Gifu cover an area of ​​around 1,951 km².

politics

The fourth main building of the Gifu Prefectural Administration in Gifu City was completed in 1966, and an annex building for the Gifu Prefectural Parliament was opened in 1978.
Group strengths in the prefecture parliament
(as of April 30, 2019)
     
A total of 46 seats
  • Kensei Jimin Club: 32
  • Kenmin Club ("Prefectural Citizens Club"; DVP , KDP , non-party): 6
  • Kōmeitō : 2
  • KPY : 1
  • Non-attached: 5

The former official Hajime Furuta has been governor of Gifu since 2005; he was last confirmed in office in the 2017 gubernatorial election against only one CPY-supported candidate. In parliament, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was able to defend its absolute majority with 29 seats in the April 2019 elections.

In the national parliament , Gifu elects five members directly to the lower house and since 2013 only one instead of the previous two per partial election to the upper house. Since the introduction of the single-mandate constituencies for the lower house , the prefecture was initially a safe "conservative kingdom": all seats went to the LDP before three candidates from the Democratic Party were able to defeat LDP incumbents in 2009 . In 2012 , 2014 and 2017 all five constituencies again went to the LDP. For the proportional representation segment of the lower house, Gifu is part of the Tōkai block. In the House of Lords, too, after its conversion into a winner-take-all constituency, Gifu will be represented exclusively by Liberal Democrats.

In particular, the delegation to the national parliament ( Kokkai ) consists of (as of August 2019):

  • for constituency 1, which consists of most of the city of Gifu: Seiko Noda (LDP, 9th term of office), granddaughter and adopted daughter of Minister of Construction Uichi Noda ,
  • for constituency 2 in the west of Gifu: Yasufumi Tanahashi (LDP, 8th term of office), grandson of governor and state planning minister Yukiyasu Matsuno ,
  • for constituency 3 in the center around the capital (including a small part of it): Yōji Mutō (LDP, 4th term of office), son of Foreign Minister Kabun Mutō ,
  • for constituency 4 in the east and northeast: Shunpei Kaneko (LDP, 1st term), son and successor of Kazuyoshi Kaneko , grandson of Finance Minister Ippei Kaneko ,
  • for constituency 5 in the southeast of Gifu: Keiji Furuya (LDP, 10th term), adopted son of Interior Minister Tōru Furuya ,
  • until 2022: Takeyuki Watanabe (LDP, 2nd term of office), who prevailed in the 2016 election with 55.8% of the votes against Yoshiharu Komiyama ( DP ), the previous second member of the Gifu House of Lords in this class,
  • until 2025: Yasutada Ōno (LDP, 2nd term), before his election in 2013 , member of the prefectural parliament for ten years, son of transport and labor minister Akira Ōno (1995–1996 member of the upper house for Gifu, previously for decades for the old multi-mandate constituency of Gifu 1 in the lower house ) and State Secretary of Justice Tsuyako Ōno (1996–2007 Member of the House of Lords for Gifu), grandson of LDP co-founder Bamboku Ōno (1930–42 and 1946–64 for Gifu 1 in the lower house).

Administrative division

Border signs of Gifu Prefecture & Kasamatsu City

With the introduction of the modern parishes in 1889, the Gifu Prefecture consisted of an independent city, 25 small towns and 938 villages (in 25 counties). Through incorporations and mergers, the number of communities fell from 344 (1920) to 140 (1955) to 99 in 2000. Since 2006, the prefecture has consisted of 21 independent cities ( Shi ), 19 small towns ( Chō ) and 2 villages ( 村 , Mura ), summarized in nine counties. Four of these districts consist of only one municipality each.

In the table below, the districts ( 郡 , Gun ) are shown in italics, below each (indented) the small towns ( 町 , Chō ) and villages ( 村 , Mura ) within them. A dependency between rural district and small town can also be seen in the first three digits of the code (1st column). At the beginning of the table are the independent cities ( 市 , Shi ).

List of municipalities in Gifu
code Surname Area (in km²) population Population
density (inh / km²) 3
Rōmaji Kanji October 1, 2017 1 October 1, 2019 2 October 1, 2015 3
21201 Gifu- shi 岐阜 市 203.60 402,537 406.735 1997.72
21202 Ōgaki- shi 大 垣 市 206.57 159.090 159,879 773.97
21203 Takayama- shi 高山 市 2177.61 86,951 89.182 40.95
21204 Tajimi- shi 多 治 見 市 91.25 108.130 110,441 1210.31
21205 Seki- shi 関 市 472.33 87.291 89,153 188.75
21206 Nakatsugawa- shi 中 津 川 市 676.45 76,871 78,883 116.61
21207 Mino- shi 美濃 市 117.01 19,815 20,760 177.42
21208 Mizunami- shi 瑞 浪 市 174.86 37,426 38,730 221.49
21209 Hashima- shi 羽 島 市 53.66 66,724 67,337 1254.88
21210 Ena- shi 恵 那 市 504.24 49,228 51,073 101.29
21211 Minokamo- shi 美濃 加 茂 市 74.81 56,485 55,384 740.33
21212 Toki- shi 土 岐 市 116.02 56,471 57,827 498.42
21213 Kakamigahara- shi 各 務 原 市 87.81 144,385 144,690 1647.76
21214 Kani- shi 可 児 市 87.57 99,591 98,695 1127.04
21215 Yamagata- shi 山 県 市 221.98 26,171 27,114 122.15
21216 Mizuho- shi 瑞 穂 市 28.19 55,510 54,354 1928.13
21217 Hida- shi 飛 騨 市 792.53 23,439 24,696 31.16
21218 Motosu- shi 本 巣 市 374.65 33,262 33,995 90.74
21219 Gujo- shi 郡 上市 1030.75 40.097 42,090 40.83
21220 Gero- shi 下 呂 市 851.21 31,807 33,585 39.46
21221 Kaizu- shi 海 津市 112.03 33,462 35.206 314.26
21300 Hashima gun 羽 島 郡 18.21 47,890 47,372 2601.43
21302   Ginan-cho 岐 南 町 7.91 25,330 24,622 3112.77
21303   Kasamatsu-cho 笠 松 町 10.30 22,560 22,750 2208.74
21340 Yōrō-gun 養老 郡 72.29 27,552 29,029 401.56
21341   Yōrō -chō 養老 町 72.29 27,552 29,029 401.56
21360 Fuwa-gun 不 破 郡 106.36 33,931 34,975 328.81
21361   Tarui-cho 垂 井 町 57.09 27,020 27,556 482.68
21362   Sekigahara -chō 関 ケ 原 町 49.28 6911 7419 150.55
21380 Ampachi gun 安 八 郡 59.26 43,330 44.007 742.48
21381   Goo- cho 神 戸 町 18.78 18,953 19,282 1026.73
21382   Wanouchi-cho 輪 之 内 町 22.33 9777 9973 446.62
21383   Ampachi -chō 安 八 町 18.16 14,600 14,752 812.33
21400 Ibi-gun 揖 斐 郡 876.43 66,858 69,303 79.07
21401   Ibigawa-cho 揖 斐川 町 803.44 20,303 21,503 26.76
21403   Ōno-chō 大野 町 34.20 22,813 23,453 685.76
21404   Ikeda-cho 池田 町 38.80 23,742 24,347 627.50
21420 Motosu gun 本 巣 郡 5.18 18,278 18,169 3507.53
21421   Kitagata-chō 北方 町 5.18 18,278 18,169 3507.53
21500 Kamo-gun 加 茂 郡 615.10 47,601 49,519 80.51
21501   Sakahogi-cho 坂 祝 町 12.87 8280 8202 637.30
21502   Tomika-cho 富 加 町 16.82 5563 5564 330.80
21503   Kawabe-cho 川 辺 町 41.16 9948 10197 247.74
21504   Hichisō-chō 七 宗 町 90.47 3550 3876 42.84
21505   Yaotsu-cho 八百 津 町 128.79 10,430 11,027 85.62
21506   Shirakawa-cho 白 川 町 237.90 7733 8392 35.28
21507   Higashishirakawa-mura 東 白 川村 87.09 2097 2261 25.96
21520 Kani-gun 可 児 郡 56.69 17,679 18,111 319.47
21521   Mitake-cho 御 嵩 町 56.69 17,679 18,111 319.47
21600 Ōno-gun 大野 郡 356.64 1544 1609 4.51
21604   Shirakawa-mura 白 川村 356.64 1544 1609 4.51
Shi-bu ( All Shi , proportion of urban districts) 市 部 8455.13 1,694,743 1,719,809 203.40
Gun-bu ( All Gun , percentage of counties) 郡 部 2166.19 304,663 312.094 144.08
21000 Gifu-Ken (Gifu Prefecture) 岐阜 県 10,621.29 1,999,406 2,031,903 191.30

Sources
1 Area data from 2017
2 Estimated population 2018
3 Results of the 2015 census

Biggest places

Former and Existing Cities (-shi)
October 1st census results
VZ year Residents
2015 2010 2005 2000
Gifu 406.735 413.136 399.931 402.751
Ōgaki 159,879 161.160 151.030 150.246
Kakamigahara 144,690 145.604 144.174 131.991
Tajimi 110,441 112,595 103,821 104,135
Kani 98,695 97,436 97,686 91,652
Takayama 89.182 92,747 96.231 66,430
Seki 89,153 91,418 92,597 74,438
Nakatsugawa 78,883 80.910 84.080 54.902
Hashima 67,337 67.197 66,730 64,713
Toki 57,827 60,475 62.102 63.283
Minokamo 55,384 54,729 52,133 50,063
Mizuho 54,354 51,950 50.009 -
Ena 51,073 53,718 55,761 35,677
Gujō 42,090 44,491 47,495 -
Mizunami 38,730 40,387 42,065 42,298
Kaizu 35.206 37,941 39,453 -
Motosu 33,995 35,047 34,603 -
Gero 33,585 36,314 38,494 -
Yamagata 27,114 29,629 30,316 -
Hida 24,696 26,732 28,902 -
Mino 20,760 22,629 23,390 24,662
  • October 1, 2003 - three parishes merge to form the urban district of Yamagata .
  • May 1, 2003 - two municipalities merge to form the independent city of Mizuho .
  • February 1, 2004 - the small town of Motosu integrates three communities and is raised to the status of an independent city .
  • February 1, 2004 - the independent city of Hida is formed from four parishes.
  • March 1, 2004 - the independent city of Gujō is formed from seven parishes.
  • March 1, 2004 - the small town of Gero integrates four municipalities and is raised to the status of an independent city .
  • March 28, 2005 - the small town of Kaizu integrates two municipalities and is raised to the status of an independent city .

Population development in the prefecture

Census population results of the censuses
Census
year		 Total
population		 male
population		 female
population		 Gender
ratio
men to 1000 women 		Area
in km 2 		Population
density
per km 2
1920 2,089,762 1,033,860 1,055,902 979.1 5055.06 413.40
1920 1,070,407 536.334 534.073 1004 10462.37 102.31
1925 1,132,557 567,837 564,720 1006 10462.37 108.25
1930 1,178,405 591.049 587.356 1006 10494.70 112.29
1935 1,225,799 612,366 613,433 998 10494.70 116.80
1940 1,265,024 632.820 632.204 1001 10494.70 120.54
1945 1,518,649 715,800 802.849 892 10494.70 144.71
1950 1,544,538 762.295 782.243 975 10491.69 147.22
1955 1,583,605 774.062 809.543 956 10479.29 151.12
1960 1,638,399 796.825 841,574 947 10521.82 155.71
1965 1,700,365 821,444 878.921 935 10598.89 160.43
1970 1,758,954 848.786 910.168 933 10595.75 166.01
1975 1,867,978 907.382 960,596 945 10595.75 176.30
1980 1.960.107 954.018 1.006.089 948 10595.75 184.99
1985 2,028,536 986.919 1,041,617 948 10595.75 191.45
1990 2,066,569 1.003.933 1,062,636 945 10597.87 195.00
1995 2,100,315 1,019,549 1,080,766 943 10598.17 198.18
2000 2,107,700 1,022,186 1,085,514 942 10598.18 198.87
2005 2.107.226 1,020,570 1,086,656 939 10621.17 198.40
2010 2,080,773 1.006.247 1,074,526 937 10621.17 195.91
2015 2,031,903 983.850 1,048,053 939 10621.29 191.30

Web links

Commons : Gifu Prefecture  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [dokuritsu gyōsei hōjin] mizushigen kikō ("[independent administrative body] water resources organization"; English [IAA] Japan Water Agency ): Kiso-sansen no kōzui to chisui no rekishi (history of floods and flood control on the three Kiso rivers) with historical maps of the Kiso Delta
  2. ↑ Gifu Prefectural Administration , "Department for Environment and [Daily] Life" (kankyō-seikatsu-bu) , "[ Sub ] Department for Nature and Environmental Protection" (shizen-kankyō-hozen-ka) : Nature parks (Japanese)
  3. ↑ Gifu Prefectural Administration : 県 庁 舎 の ご 案 内 kenchōsha no go-annai , German 'Information on the building of the prefecture administration' , English Guide to the Prefectural Government Building ( pref.gifu.lg.jp ).
  4. ↑ Gifu Prefectural Parliament : Members by parliamentary group , accessed on May 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ 岐阜 県 知事 選 現 職 の 古 田氏 ４ 回 目 の 当選 . In: NHK選 挙 WEB. January 29, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2019 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ 岐阜 県 議 選 各 党 議席 . In: NHK選 挙 WEB. April 7, 2019, Retrieved May 9, 2019 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ Kokudo Chiriin (GSI - Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), 平 成 29 年 全国 都 道 府 県 市区 町 村 別 面積 調 (Nationwide survey of all prefectures and municipalities 2017) , p. 55: 21 Gifu-ken (Japanese), accessed on 30 January 2019
  8. ↑ 簡 単 検 索 ・ 詳細 検 索 ・ 検 索 サ ン プ ル , accessed January 30, 2019 (Japanese)
  9. ↑ e-stat (English), accessed on January 30, 2019
  10. ↑ e-Stat database , accessed on January 30, 2019 (English)

Coordinates: 35 ° 29 '  N , 136 ° 54'  E