Kōriyama
Sign in to savethumb|right|View of central Kōriyama right|thumb|Kōriyama city hall is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 321,938 people in 141760 households, and a population density of 425 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Kōriyama is designated as a core city and functions as a commercial center for Fukushima Prefecture. Kōriyama is the third largest conurbation in the Tōhoku region.
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Kōriyama is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, with a population of approximately 321,938 people, and serves as a designated core city and commercial center for the prefecture. As the third largest conurbation in the Tōhoku region, it plays an important economic and administrative role in northeastern Japan.
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- Top: View of Kōriyama Big-i complex building and Kōriyama railway station, Middle: Kōriyama Kaisei Shrine, Nunobiki Highland, near Lake Inawashiro, Bottom: Bandai-Atami Spa, Kōriyama Uneme Festival in August (all item from left to right)
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thumb|right|View of central Kōriyama right|thumb|Kōriyama city hall is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 321,938 people in 141760 households, and a population density of 425 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Kōriyama is designated as a core city and functions as a commercial center for Fukushima Prefecture. Kōriyama is the third largest conurbation in the Tōhoku region.
==History== Kōriyama originated as a regional governmental center in the Nara period, when the area was on the frontier of Yamato settlement of the Tōhoku region. The surrounding area developed into shōen controlled by various samurai clans in the Heian and Kamakura periods. Nearby centers, such as Nihonmatsu developed into castle towns under Hatakeyama clan and which were later controlled by the Date clan, Kōriyama remained as a commercial center and thrived as a post town because of its importance as a traffic focal point into the Edo period and was part of the territory of Nihonmatsu Domain.