Kochi Prefecture

Kōchi-ken ; 高知県
Basic data
Administrative headquarters :	Kochi
Region :	Shikoku
Main island :	Shikoku
Area :	7,103.64 km²
Water content:	0.2 %
Residents :	697,674 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km²
Counties :	6th
Municipalities :	34
ISO 3166-2 :	JP-39
Governor :	Seiji Hamada
Website:	http://www.pref.kochi.lg.jp/
Symbols
Prefecture flag :
Prefecture tree :	Yanase- Japanese cedar
Prefecture flower :	Myrica rubra
Vogel prefecture :	Nymph pitta
Fish prefecture :	Real bonito
Prefecture song :	Kōchi-kenmin no uta; ("Song of the Citizens of Kōchi")

Political map of Ken /
Shi Prefecture / district-free cities in pink, Chō / cities in yellow, Mura / villages in turquoise

Physical map of the prefecture

The prefecture of Kōchi ( Japanese 高知県 , Kōchi-ken ) is one of the prefectures of Japan . It emerged in 1871 from the Principality of Tosa / Kōchi (Kōchi-han) and in 1880, when it was finally separated from Tokushima , it essentially reached its present-day expansion corresponding to the province of Tosa . The prefecture is located in the Shikoku region on Shikoku Island. The seat of the prefecture administration is the city of the same name Kōchi (Kōchi-shi) .

Administrative division

Since 2008, the prefecture has been divided into eleven cities ( Shi ) as well as 17 (district / small) cities ( Chō ) and six villages ( Son ). The latter are organized in six districts ( Gun ).
After the introduction of today's community forms, there were 197 communities in 1889, only one of which was independent and two of which were part of the district. On September 1, 2003 there were still 9 urban districts and 25 urban districts as well as 19 villages and 7 rural districts. When Kami-shi City was established on March 1, 2006, Kami-gun County was dissolved.

In the table below, the districts (郡) are shown in italics, underneath each (indented) the small towns (町) and the villages (村) 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).

code	Surname		Area (in km²)	population	Population density (inh / km²)
code	Rōmaji	Kanji	01.10.2017 ¹	01.10.2018 ²	01/10/2015 ³
39201	Kochi- shi	高知市	309.00	331.414	337.190	1091.23
39202	Muroto- shi	室戸市	248.18	12,386	13,524	54.49
39203	Aki- shi	安芸市	317.21	16,764	17,577	55.41
39204	Nankoku- shi	南国市	125.30	47.294	47,982	382.94
39205	Tosa- shi	土佐市	91.50	26,105	27,038	295.50
39206	Susaki- shi	須崎市	135.44	21,552	22.606	166.91
39208	Sukumo -shi	宿毛市	286.20	19,888	20,907	73.05
39209	Tosashimizu- shi	土佐清水市	266.34	12,762	13,778	51.73
39210	Shimanto- shi	四万十市	632.29	33,385	34,313	54.27
39211	Konan- shi	香南市	126.46	32,338	32,961	260.64
39212	Kami- shi	香美市	537.86	26,862	27,513	51.15
39300	Aki-gun	安芸郡	563.12	16,281	17,249	30.63
39301	Toyo-cho	東洋町	74.06	2310	2584	34.89
39302	Nahari-cho	奈半利町	28.36	3156	3326	117.28
39303	Tano-cho	田野町	6.53	2551	2733	418.53
39304	Yasuda-cho	安田町	52.36	2519	2631	50.25
39305	Kitagawa-mura	北川村	196.73	1207	1294	6.58
39306	Umaji-mura	馬路村	165.48	780	823	4.97
39307	Geisei-mura	芸西村	39.60	3758	3858	97.42
39340	Nagaoka gun	長岡郡	449.28	6905	7535	16.77
39341	Motoyama-chō	本山町	134.22	3462	3573	26.62
39344	Ōtoyo-chō	大豊町	315.06	3443	3962	12.58
39360	Tosa-gun	土佐郡	307.40	4204	4393	14.29
39363	Tosa-cho	土佐町	212.13	3819	3997	18.84
39364	Ōkawa-mura	大川村	95.27	385	396	4.16
39380	Agawa-gun	吾川郡	803.97	26,601	28,318	35.22
39386	Ino-cho	いの町	470.97	21,640	22,767	48.34
39387	Niyodogawa-chō	仁淀川町	333.00	4961	5551	16.67
39400	Takaoka-gun	高岡郡	1,527.40	54,551	57.506	37.65
39401	Nakatosa-cho	中土佐町	193.20	6335	6840	35.40
39402	Sakawa-cho	佐川町	100.80	12,643	13.114	130.10
39403	Ochi-cho	越知町	111.95	5417	5795	51.76
39405	Yusuhara-cho	梼原町	236.45	3495	3608	15.26
39410	Hidaka-mura	日高村	44.85	4793	5030	112.15
39411	Tsuno-cho	津野町	197.85	5435	5794	29.29
39412	Shimanto-cho	四万十町	642.30	16,433	17,325	26.97
39420	Hata-gun	幡多郡	376.90	16,588	17,886	47.46
39424	Ōtsuki-chō	大月町	102.94	4618	5095	49.50
39427	Mihara-mura	三原村	85.37	1450	1574	18.44
39428	Kuroshio-chō	黒潮町	188.59	10,520	11,217	59.48
Kochi Prefecture		高知県	7103.86	705.880	728.276	102.52

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

Biggest places

Former and existing cities (-shi)
Census year	Residents
2015	2010	2005	2000
Kochi	337.190	343,393	337.190	330,654
Nankoku	47,982	49,472	47,982	49,965
Shimanto	34,313	35,933	34,313	——
Konan	32,961	33,830	32,961	——
Kami	27,513	28,766	27,513	——
Tosa	27,038	28,686	27,038	30,338
Susaki	22.606	24,698	22.606	27,569
Sukumo	20,907	22,610	20,907	25,970
Aki	17,577	19,547	17,577	21,321
Tosashimizu	13,778	16,029	13,778	18,512
Muroto	13,524	15.210	13,524	19,472
Nakamura	——	——	——	34,968

On April 10, 2005, the city of Nakamura and a community merge to form the new city of Shimanto .
On March 1st, 2006 the cities of Konan (from 5 parishes) and Kami (from 3 parishes) will be re-formed by merger.

Population development in the prefecture

Census population
Census year	Total population	male population	female population	Gender ratio men to 1000 women	Area in km ²	Population density per km ²
1920	670,895	332.087	338,808	980	7088.01	94.7
1925	687.478	341,687	345.791	988	7088.01	97.0
1930	718.152	357.166	360.986	989	7103.62	101.1
1935	714.980	355.225	359,755	987	7103.62	100.7
1940	709.286	348.907	360.379	968	7103.62	99.9
1945	775.578	357.940	417,638	857	7103.62	109.2
1950	873.874	425,968	447.906	951	7104.93	123.0
1955	882.683	429.175	453.508	946	7104.24	124.3
1960	854.595	411.162	443.433	927	7104.24	120.3
1965	812.714	386.725	425.989	908	7105.22	114.4
1970	786.882	372.014	414,868	897	7105.91	110.7
1975	808.397	383,538	424.859	903	7106.6	113.8
1980	831.275	396.418	434.857	912	7106.82	117.0
1985	839.784	398,408	441.376	903	7107.13	118.2
1990	825.034	389.063	435.971	892	7103.95	116.1
1995	816.704	384,446	432.258	889	7104.13	115.0
2000	813,949	383,859	430.090	893	7104.66	114.6
2005	796.292	374.435	421.857	888	7105.01	112.1
2010	764.456	359.134	405,322	886	7105.16	107.6
2015	728.276	342,672	385,604	889	7103.93	102.5

politics

Political groups in the prefecture parliament
(as of 2019)

A total of 37 seats

LDP : 20
Kenmin no kai ( KDP , SDP etc.): 6
KPY : 5
Kōmeitō : 3
Two other factions: 3

The seat of the prefectural administration and parliament.

On November 24, 2019, the former Sōmushō official and lieutenant governor of Osaka Seiji Hamada , supported by Ozaki, LDP and Kōmeitō , was elected to succeed Masanao Ozaki as governor of Kōchi . Hamada prevailed with around 61% of the vote against the center-left parties ( KDP , DVP , KPJ , SDP ) supported Kenji Matsumoto, a board member of the KPJ Kōchi. In the first gubernatorial vote in Kōchi in twelve years (the 2011 and 2015 elections were without a vote due to the lack of an opposing candidate), voter turnout reached 47.7%, just under two points above the all-time low of 2007.

Since 2015 the parliament has had 37 members from 16 constituencies. The constituency of the city of Kōchi elects 15 MPs, all others are one- or two-mandate constituencies. In the unified regional elections in April 2019 , the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) remained clearly the strongest force with 19 seats.

Since 2014, Kōchi has only elects two members directly to the House of Representatives , the lower house of the national parliament . The constituency of Kōchi 1 in the east including the prefecture capital has since been represented by Gen Nakatani (LDP, 10th election), constituency 2 with the larger western part was won in the 2017 election by the former democratic councilor for Kōchi Hajime Hirota (independent, 1st election in the House of Representatives ), who now belongs to the Shakaihoshō o tatenaosu kokumin kaigi faction . In the Rätehaus , the upper house of the national parliament, Kōchi is no longer represented independently and has formed the joint single-mandate constituency of Tokushima-Kōchi with neighboring Tokushima since 2016; but the LDP uses the new system of optionally unelected list places in the proportional representation to the upper house to give the LDP prefectural associations affected by the constituency associations safe seats: In the 2019 election , Kōjirō Takano from Kōchi received the (successful) majority candidate Tokushima-Kōchi, and Tōru Miki from Tokushima took the LDP list position 1 in the proportional representation.

tourism

The Shimanto River is considered the last free-flowing river in Japan and is one of the main attractions of Kōchi Prefecture.

outline
Shimantogawa
Kochi Castle

Road signs in Kochi Prefecture

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 85: 39 Kōchi-ken (Japanese), accessed on 9 December 2018

↑ 簡単検索・詳細検索・検索サンプル , accessed December 9, 2018 (Japanese)

↑ e-stat (English), accessed on December 9, 2018

↑ e-Stat database , accessed on January 1, 2019 (English)

↑ Kōchi Prefectural Parliament : Members by parliamentary group , accessed on August 12, 2019.

↑ 2019 高知県知事選 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019 (Japanese).

↑ ２０１９高知県知事選新知事に浜田氏野党共闘の松本氏破る . In: Kōchi Shimbun . November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019 (Japanese).

↑ Prefecture Parliament Kōchi: MPs by constituency

↑ 統一地方選 2019 高知県議選各党議席 . In: NHK Senkyo Web. April 7, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2019 (Japanese).

33.433055555556 133.43305555556Coordinates: 33 ° 26 ' N , 133 ° 26' E

[1] 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. 85: 39 Kōchi-ken (Japanese), accessed on 9 December 2018

[2] 簡単検索・詳細検索・検索サンプル , accessed December 9, 2018 (Japanese)

[3] -stat (English), accessed on December 9, 2018

[4] -Stat database , accessed on January 1, 2019 (English)