Gunma Prefecture

Gunma-ken ; 群馬県
Basic data
Administrative headquarters :	Maebashi
Region :	Kanto
Main island :	Honshu
Area :	6,362.28 km²
Water content:	0.2 %
Residents :	1,937,626 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	305 inhabitants per km²
Counties :	7th
Municipalities :	35
ISO 3166-2 :	JP-10
Governor :	Ichita Yamamoto
Website:	www.pref.gunma.jp
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Prefecture tree :	Japanese black pine
Prefecture flower :	Japanese azalea
Vogel prefecture :	Copper pheasant
Fish prefecture :	Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis
Citizens Day:	28th of October

The Gunma prefecture ( Jap. 群馬県 , Gunma-ken / Gumma-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan . It is located in the Kantō region on the island of Honshū . The seat of the prefectural administration is Maebashi .

politics

Group strengths in the prefecture parliament
(as of June 11, 2019)

A total of 50 seats

LDP : 32
Liberal Gunma: 6
Rhyming ( 令明 ): 3
Kōmeitō : 3
KPY : 2
Four other factions: 4

In the gubernatorial election in July 2019, with the support of LDP-Kōmeitō, the former councilor Ichita Yamamoto was elected to succeed Masaaki Ōsawa as governor of Gunma . Even after the last elections in April 2019 , the LDP holds a clear majority in parliament .

Gunma is a "conservative kingdom" ( hoshu ōkoku ), so an LDP stronghold, and the home prefecture of the LDP party chairman-Prime Ministers Fukuda , Nakasone and Obuchi , whose descendants Tatsuo Fukuda , Hirofumi Nakasone and Yūko Obuchi still today for Gunma in the national Sitting parliament . Gunma elects five members directly to the House of Representatives - in 2017 the LDP won all five seats unchanged - and two members to the Council House , after the elections in 2016 and 2019 both Liberal Democrats.

Gunma prefecture community overview

Administrative division

When today's community forms were introduced in 1889, Gunma was divided into 206 communities, 171 of which were villages. It was not until 1892 that Maebashi became the first community to become a city. The number of municipalities has decreased in almost 100 years from 208 (1920), over 97 (1955) to currently 35 (since the end of March 2010). The current structure shows 12 independent (-shi) and 15 district (-machi) cities as well as 8 villages (-mura). The number of counties ( - gun ) has dropped from 17 to seven since 1889.

In the table below, the districts are shown in italics, below each (indented) the municipalities within them. The first two digits of the local authority code are, like everywhere else, the prefecture key of Gunma, the third digit indicates the type of authority as everywhere. The seven districts have not had any significance as administrative units since the 1920s, but they are still used for geographical division; they were therefore assigned round keys (divisible by 20), the 23 municipalities belonging to the district received consecutive keys; however, due to mergers / incorporations / upgrading to -shi, gaps have arisen in many places. The independent cities are at the beginning of the table. Among them is the capital Maebashi since 2009, a "core city", chūkakushi , Takasaki followed two years later. "Exceptional cities " ( tokureishi ) have been Isesaki and Ōta since April 2007.

List of parishes in Gunma Prefecture
code	Surname		Area (in km²)	population	Population density (inh / km²) ³
code	Rōmaji	Kanji	October 1, 2018 ¹	October 1, 2018 ²	October 1, 2015 ³
10201	Maebashi- shi	前橋市	311.59	334.261	336.154	1078.83
10202	Takasaki- shi	高崎市	459.16	369.733	370,884	807.74
10203	Kiryu- shi	桐生市	274.45	109,850	114.714	417.98
10204	Isesaki- shi	伊勢崎市	139.44	210.614	208.814	1497.52
10205	Ōta -shi	太田市	175.54	221,514	219,807	1252.18
10206	Numata- shi	沼田市	443.46	46,543	48,676	109.76
10207	Tatebayashi- shi	館林市	60.97	74,993	76,667	1257.45
10208	Shibukawa- shi	渋川市	240.27	75,453	78.391	326.26
10209	Fujioka- shi	藤岡市	180.29	64,234	65,708	364.46
10210	Tomioka- shi	富岡市	122.85	48,325	49,746	404.93
10211	Annaka- shi	安中市	276.31	56,362	58,531	211.83
10212	Midori -shi	みどり市	208.42	49,984	50.906	244.25
10340	Kitagunma gun	北群馬郡	48.38	36.164	35,409	731.89
10344	Shinto-mura	榛東村	27.92	14,373	14,329	513.22
10345	Yoshioka-machi	吉岡町	20.46	21,791	21,080	1030.3
10360	Tano-gun	多野郡	296.44	2,827	3,184	10.74
10366	Ueno- mura	上野村	181.85	1,119	1,230	6.76
10367	Kanna-machi	神流町	114.6	1,708	1,954	17.05
10380	Kanra gun	甘楽郡	365.81	21,372	22,743	62.17
10382	Shimonita-machi	下仁田町	188.38	6,795	7,564	40.15
10383	Nammoku-mura	南牧村	118.83	1,753	1,979	16.65
10384	Kanra-machi	甘楽町	58.61	12,824	13,200	225.22
10420	Agatsuma-gun	吾妻郡	1278.55	53,643	56,391	44.11
10421	Nakanojo-machi	中之条町	439.28	15,918	16,850	38.36
10424	Naganohara-machi	長野原町	133.85	5,273	5,536	41.36
10425	Tsumagoi-mura	嬬恋村	337.58	9,542	9,780	28.97
10426	Kusatsu- machi	草津町	49.75	6.331	6,518	131.02
10428	Takayama-mura	高山村	64.18	3,509	3,674	57.25
10429	Higashiagatsuma-machi	東吾妻町	253.91	13,070	14,033	55.27
10440	Tone gun	利根郡	1322.23	32,953	34,731	26.27
10443	Katashina-mura	片品村	391.76	4.101	4,390	11.21
10444	Kawaba-mura	川場村	85.25	3,557	3,647	42.78
10448	Shōwa-mura	昭和村	64.14	7.138	7,347	114.55
10449	Minakami-machi	みなかみ町	781.08	18,157	19,347	24.77
10460	Sawa-gun	佐波郡	25.78	36,291	36,654	1421.8
10464	Tamamura-machi	玉村町	25.78	36,291	36,654	1421.8
10520	Ōra-gun	邑楽郡	132.36	104,324	105.005	793.33
10521	Itakura-machi	板倉町	41.86	14,411	15,015	358.7
10522	Meiwa-machi	明和町	19.64	10,969	11,044	562.32
10523	Chiyoda- machi	千代田町	21.73	11,103	11,318	520.85
10524	Ōizumi- machi	大泉町	18.03	41,692	41,202	2285.19
10525	Ōra-machi	邑楽町	31.11	26,149	26,426	849.44

Shi-bu ( All Shi , proportion of urban districts)	市部	2892.74	1,661,866	1,678,998	580.42
Gun-bu ( All Gun , percentage of counties)	郡部	3469.55	287,574	294.117	84.77

10,000	Gunma-Ken (Gunma Prefecture)	群馬県	6362.28	1,949,440	1,973,115	310.13

Sources
¹ Area data from 2018
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
Takasaki	370,884	371,302	245,100	239.904
Maebashi	336.154	340.291	318,584	284.155
Ōta	219,807	216,465	213.299	147.906
Isesaki	208.814	207.221	202,447	125,751
Kiryu	114.714	121,704	128.037	115,434
Shibukawa	78.391	83,330	47,961	48,761
Tatebayashi	76,667	78,608	79,454	79,371
Fujioka	65,708	67,975	62,480	62,951
Annaka	58,531	61,077	46,911	47,665
Midori	50.906	51,899	——	——
Tomioka	49,746	52,070	49,038	49,349
Numata	48,676	51,265	53,177	46,339

* During the period mentioned, the independent city of Midori was created on March 27, 2006 from three municipalities belonging to the district.

Population development in the prefecture

Census population
Census year	Total population	male population	female population	Gender ratio men to 1000 women	Area in km²	Population density per km ²
1920	1,052,610	514.106	538.504	955	6315.28	166.7
1925	1,118,858	548,633	570.225	962	6315.28	177.2
1930	1,186,080	581.007	605.073	960	6335.82	187.2
1935	1,242,453	606.779	635.674	955	6335.87	196.1
1940	1,299,027	637.708	661.319	964	6335.87	205.0
1945	1,546,081	723,804	822.277	880	6335.87	244.0
1950	1,601,380	778.910	822.470	947	6334.12	252.8
1955	1,613,549	781607	831,942	940	6331.86	254.8
1960	1,578,476	759.639	818.837	928	6349.96	248.6
1965	1,605,584	778.916	826,668	942	6349.96	252.9
1970	1,658,909	808.270	850.639	950	6355.61	261.0
1975	1,756,480	859.364	897.116	958	6355.61	276.4
1980	1,848,562	908.871	939,691	967	6355.61	290.9
1985	1,921,259	947.013	974.246	972	6355.61	302.3
1990	1,966,265	971.704	994.561	977	6363.18	309.0
1995	2,003,540	989.610	1,013,930	976	6363.18	314.9
2000	2,024,852	999.349	1,025,503	975	6363.16	318.2
2005	2,024,135	996.346	1,027,789	969	6363.16	318.1
2010	2,008,068	988.019	1,020,049	969	6362.33	315.6
2015	1,973,115	973.283	999.832	973	6362.28	310.1