Kōno, Fukui
dissolved municipality in Nanjō district, Fukui prefecture, Japan
Kōno (河野村, Kōno-mura) was a village located in Nanjō District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 2,114 and a density of 42.72 persons per km2. The total area was 49.48 km2.
On January 1, 2005, Kōno, along with the towns of Imajō and Nanjō (all from Nanjō District), was merged to create the town of Minamiechizen. As of this merger, the town of Nanjō no longer exists as an independent municipality.
“Kōno, Fukui” enters the record as dissolved municipality in Nanjō district, Fukui prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kōno, Fukui and dissolved can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6455237. VIAF identifies the subject as 256176760. Authority coordinates are 35.825, 136.068. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2005.
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