Shimohei-gun (Iwate)

Shimohei County (yellow) in Iwate Prefecture between 2005 and 2010

Shimohei ( Japanese 下 閉 伊 郡 , - gun ) is a district in northeastern Iwate Prefecture on Honshū , the main island of Japan .

In 2017 the district covered an area of ​​1,481.02 km²; the estimated population was 30,983, the population density therefore around 21 inhabitants / km².

The two village parishes of Fudai and Tanohata and the two cities of Iwaizumi and Yamada have belonged to the district since 2014 .

Parishes in the later Shimo-Hei-gun after the Great Meiji Territorial Reform in 1889, 1. – 17. Higashi-Hei, April 21-28 Kita-Hei, 31.-33. Naka-Hei, in purple the now independent city ​​of Miyako

Shimo-Hei, ie "sub-Hei", created in 1897 by the union of the circles Kita (North), Naka- (Central) and Higashi-Hei (East Hei), this previously in 1879 by the division of the circle Hei from Mutsu or Rikuchū ("Middle Mutsu") . South and West Hei became Kami-Hei ("Upper Hei").

Coordinates: 39 ° 52 '  N , 141 ° 47'  E