Shimōsa Province
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Shimōsa Province (下総国, Shimōsa no Kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was also known as Sōshū (総州) or Hokusō (北総).
The province had borders with Kazusa Province to the south, Musashi and Kōzuke Provinces to the west, and Hitachi and Shimotsuke Provinces to the north.