Minamitakaki District, Nagasaki
former district in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan
Minamitakaki (南高来郡, Minami-Takaki-gun; English: South Takaki District) was a district located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
Minamitakaki District is now equivalent to the cities of Shimabara, Unzen, and Minami-Shimabara.
As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 117,639 and a density of 293.97 persons per km2. The total area was 400.18 km2.
Former towns and villages
Aino
Ariake
Arie
Azuma
Chijiwa
Fukae
Futsu
Kazusa
Kita-Arima
Kuchinotsu
Kunimi
Minami-Arima
Minami-Kushiyama
Mizuho
Nishi-Arie
Obama
Mergers
On October 11, 2005 - the towns of Aino, Azuma, Chijiwa, Kunimi, Minami-Kushiyama, Mizuho and Obama were merged to create the city of Unzen.
On January 1, 2006 - the town of Ariake were merged into the expanded city of Shimabara.
On March 31, 2006 - the towns of Arie, Fukae, Futsu, Kazusa, Kita-Arima, Kuchinotsu, Minami-Arima and Nishi-Arie were merged to create the city of Minami-Shimabara. Minamitakaki District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Minamitakaki District, Nagasaki” as former district in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as former district in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6863121. VIAF identifies the subject as 259627730. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2005 and 2006.
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