Yatsushiro District, Kumamoto

Location of Yatsushiro District in Kumamoto Prefecture

Template:Nihongo is a district located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.

As of the Yatsushiro merger (but with 2003 population estimates), the district has an estimated population of 13,524 and a density of 406 persons per square kilometer. The total area is 33.29 km².

Towns and villages

• Hikawa

Mergers

See Merger and dissolution of municipalities of Japan.

• On August 1, 2005, the municipalities of Izumi, Kagami, Sakamoto, Senchō and Tōyō merged into the city of Yatsushiro.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• On October 1, 2005, the towns of Miyahara and Ryūhoku merged to form the new town of Hikawa.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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