Villages of Japan

A village (村, mura^?, sometimes son) is a local administrative unit in Japan.

It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken^?, or other equivalents), city (市, shi^?), and town (町, chō^?, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.

It is larger than an actual settlement, being in actuality a subdivision of a rural district (郡, gun^?), which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area.

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