Gunma Prefecture

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Gunma-ken
群 馬 県
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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 :
Gunma 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
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

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Gunma Prefecture Parliament : Members by parliamentary group , accessed on June 26, 2019.
  2. ^ Ruling coalition-backed Ichita Yamamoto wins Gunma governor race. In: The Japan Times . July 21, 2019, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  3. 統一 地方 選 2019 群 馬 県 議 選 各 党 議席 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. April 8, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. Kokudo Chiriin (GSI - Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), 平 成 30 年 全国 都 道 府 県 市区 町 村 別 面積 調 (Nationwide survey of all prefectures and municipalities 2018) , p. 32: 10 Gunma-ken (Japanese), accessed on 1 April 2019
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  6. e-stat (English), accessed on April 1, 2019
  7. e-Stat database , accessed on April 1, 2019 (English)
  8. e-Stat database , accessed on April 1, 2019 (English)

Coordinates: 36 ° 22 ′  N , 139 ° 7 ′  E