Satsuma-gun (Kagoshima)
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Country : | Japan |
Island : | Kyushu |
Prefecture : | Kagoshima |
Area : | 721.44 km² |
Residents : | 58,036 (2003) |
Population density : | 80.44 inhabitants per km² |
Satsuma ( Japanese 薩摩 郡 , - gun ) is the name of a Japanese district (-gun) in the prefecture ( -ken ) Kagoshima in the southernmost of the Japanese regions, Kyūshū . Since the expansion of the city of Sendai in 2004, the district has only been located on the island of Kyūshū, off the coast. In the premodern country structure of Japan, which goes back to the Ritsuryō administration of antiquity, the Satsuma district in its original extent was one of the 13 (at times 14) districts of the Satsuma province in the Saikaidō ("Greater Saikai / Western Sea Empire").
In the Great Heisei Territorial Reform in October 2004, some parishes in Satsuma County were added to the new urban district ( -shi ) Satsuma-Sendai . In March 2005, the cities ( -chō ) Satsuma ( 薩摩 ), Miyanojō and Tsuruda merged to form a new city of Satsuma ( さ つ ま ). This makes Satsuma-chō the last remaining community in Satsuma-gun.
Like all counties, Satsuma is no longer an administrative unit since the dissolution of the county administration and county council in the 1920s, only a geographical and statistical unit.
Web links
- Kagoshima Prefecture Administration : Population statistics according to 1995 census, Satsuma-gun (then 7 cities, 4 villages) (Japanese)