Asuwa District, Fukui

Template:Nihongo was a district located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

The time before the dissolution, the district had an estimated population of 5,044 with a density of 36.62 persons per km². The total area was 137.73 km².

Municipalities

Prior to its dissolution, the district consisted of only one town:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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History

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Map showing original extent of Asuwa District in Fukui Prefecture:

* yellow - areas formerly within the district borders during the early Meiji period

Asuwa-gun as established in 1889, with modern Fukui-shi in purple.

The district was first established in 1878, with a county office in Fukui Sakae-cho that governed both Asuwa and Yoshida Districts.

District Timeline

Pre-1889	1889-1912	1912-1944	1945-1955	1955-1989		1989-2006	Post-2006
?	Fukui-shi Template:Small		Fukui-shi	Fukui-shi	Fukui-shi	Fukui-shi	Fukui-shi
?	Wada-mura Template:Small	Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 May 1936
?	Kita-mura Template:Small	Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 October 1936
?	Higashiayo-mura Template:Small	Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 August 1939
?	Yashiro-mura Template:Small		Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 April 1954
?	Asotsu-mura Template:Small			Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 October 1957
?	Sake-mura Template:Small		Merged to form Asuwa-mura on 31 March 1955	Reorganized as Asuwa-cho on 1 August 1960	Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 September 1971
?	Ichijōdani-mura Template:Small
?	Kamimonju-mura Template:Small
?	Shitamonju-mura Template:Small
?	Rokujō-mura Template:Small
?	Tōgō-mura Template:Small		Incorporated into Asuwa-mura on 10 July 1955
?	Kamiusaka-mura Template:Small		Merged to form Miyama-mura on 11 February 1955	Reorganized as Miyama-cho on 1 August 1964	Miyama-cho	Incorporated into Fukui-shi on 1 February 2006
?	Shimousaka-mura Template:Small
?	Ashimi-mura, Ōno-gun Template:Small
?	Hanyu-mura, Ōno-gun Template:Small
?	Kamimi-mura, Ōno-gun Template:Small
?	Shimomi-mura, Ōno-gun Template:Small

Recent mergers

• On February 1, 2006 - The town of Miyama, along with the town of Shimizu and the village of Koshino (both from Nyū District) were merged into the expanded city of Fukui. Therefore, Asuwa District was dissolved as a result of this merger.

See also

• List of dissolved districts of Japan