VILLAGES OF JAPAN

A is a local administrative unit in Japan.
It is a local public body along with , , and . 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 , which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area.
=== Prefectures without villages ===
(As of March 30, 2006)

★ Ehime (several recent mergers, the last of which was on January 16, 2005)

★ Fukui

★ Hyōgo

★ Hiroshima

★ Kagawa

★ Saga

★ Shiga (the village of Kutsuki merged with several other towns to form the new city of Takashima on January 1, 2005)

Contents

Prefectures with only one village

See also

External links

Prefectures with only one village

(As of January 16, 2005)

★ Kanagawa (Kiyokawa, Aikō District)

★ Kyōto (Minamiyamashiro, Soraku District)

★ Ōsaka (Chihayaakasaka, Minamikawachi District)

★ Tottori (Hiezu, Saihaku District)

★ Nagasaki (Ōshima, Kitamatsuura District)

See also

★ Municipalities of Japan

★ Japanese addressing system

★ Edo period village

External links

★ ''My Mother is a Tractor: A Life in Rural Japan''