Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. The main industries of the peninsula are agriculture, fisheries, and tourism.
Noto (能登町, Noto-chō) is a town located in Hōsu District (formerly Fugeshi District), Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the town had an estimated population of 15,687 in 7,689 households, and a population density of 65 persons per km 2. [1] [2] The total area of the town was 273.27 square kilometres (105.51 sq mi).
Noto Province (能登国, Noto-no kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that is today the northern part of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, including the Noto Peninsula (Noto-hantō) which is surrounded by the Sea of Japan. [1] Noto bordered on Etchū and Kaga provinces to the south, and was surrounded by the Sea of Japan to the
One common division, preferred by the English Wikipedia, groups the prefectures into eight regions. In that division, of the four main islands of Japan, Hokkaidō, Shikoku, and Kyūshū make up one region each, the latter also containing the Satsunan Islands, while the largest island Honshū is divided into five regions.
The Provinces of Japan c. 1600 Hiking, from Murdoch and Yamagata published in 1903. Provinces of Japan (令制国, Ryōseikoku) were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868. Provinces were established in Japan in the late 7th century under the Ritsuryō law system that formed the first central government.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
The Japanese government translates Tōkyō-to (東京都, [toːkʲoꜜːto]) as "Tokyo Metropolis" in almost all cases, and the government is officially called the "Tokyo Metropolitan Government". Following the capitulation of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, Tōkyō-fu (an urban prefecture like Kyoto and Osaka) was set up and encompassed the ...
Twin Bridge Noto (ツインブリッジ能登, Tsuinburijji Noto) (northern bridge) was completed in 1999. On October 1, 2004 the town of Notojima was abolished and Notojima island became part of the city of Nanao and of Noto-Hanto Quazi-National Park. An earthquake with 6.9 on the Moment magnitude scale occurred March 25, 2007.