Higashikubiki District, Niigata

Higashikubiki (東頸城郡, Higashikubiki-gun) was a district located in Niigata, Japan.

This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2024)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (April 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,295 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:東頸城郡]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|東頸城郡}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 19,638 with a density of 45.60 persons per km². The total area was 430.64 km².

History

The district was founded when the former Kubiki District split into Higashikubiki District, Nakakubiki District, and Nishikubiki District. At the time of founding, the district covered the eastern portion of the city of Jōetsu (the sections of Maki, Ōshima, Uragawara and Yasuzuka) and the western portion of the city of Tōkamachi (the sections of Matsudai and Matsunoyama).

District Timeline

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2023)

Recent mergers

On January 1, 2005 - The town of Yasuzuka, and the villages of Maki, Ōshima and Uragawara, along with the towns of Itakura, Kakizaki, Ōgata and Yoshikawa, the villages of Kiyosato, Kubiki, Nakagō and Sanwa (all from Nakakubiki District), and the town of Nadachi (from Nishikubiki District), were merged into the expanded city of Jōetsu.^[1]^[2]
On April 1, 2005 - The towns of Matsudai and Matsunoyama, along with the town of Kawanishi, and the village of Nakasato (both from Nakauonuma District), were merged into the expanded city of Tōkamachi. Therefore, Higashikubiki District was dissolved as a result of this merger.

Remove ads

Notes

Classified as a village.
Classified as a town.

Higashikubiki District, Niigata

Municipalities

History

District Timeline

Recent mergers

See also

Notes

References

Wikiwand - on