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Shimodate
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Shimodate was a municipality in Japan, located within Ibaraki Prefecture. It held the official names Shimodate-machi and Shimodate-shi. The settlement was established on April 1, 1889, and again on March 15, 1954. It was dissolved on March 28, 2005, and replaced by Chikusei. The area is now part of the present-day administrative territorial entity of Chikusei.
Historically, Shimodate had a population of 63,666. It was situated in the Asia/Tokyo timezone and served as part of the Ibaraki 1st electoral district. The location is classified as a populated place. Street-level imagery of the area was captured on August 9, 2023, by okadatsuneo.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, GeoNames, Mapillary. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- 下館市
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Ibaraki Prefecture
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- replaced by
- Chikusei
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2005-03-28
- inception
- 1954-03-15
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Chikusei
- associated electoral district
- Ibaraki 1st district
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