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Agatsuma District, Gunma


Agatsuma District (吾妻郡 Agatsuma-gun?) is a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of January 2015, the district had an estimated population of 56,994 and an area of 1,278.55 km², with a population density of 44.6 people per square kilometer.

The area of Agatsuma District was formerly part of Kōzuke Province, and per a census conducted at the start of the Meiji period, consisted of 42 villages administered as tenryō directly by the Tokugawa shogunate and four towns and 44 villages administered as hatamoto-territory, primarily by the Oguri-clan.

With the establishment of the municipality system on April 1, 1889 the area was organized into three towns (Nakanojō, Hara and Naganohara) and ten villages

Coordinates: 36°34′N 138°49′E / 36.567°N 138.817°E / 36.567; 138.817


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