Satsuma District, Kagoshima
district in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
Satsuma (薩摩郡, Satsuma-gun) is a district located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
As of the March 22, 2005 merger the district consists of the single town of Satsuma.
Mergers
On October 12, 2004 the old city of Sendai, the towns of Hiwaki, Iriki, Kedōin and Tōgō, and the villages of Kamikoshiki, Kashima, Sato and Shimokoshiki merged to form the new city of Satsumasendai, dramatically decreasing the size and population of the district to 26,587 people and 303.43 km2, making a density of 87.62 persons per km2.
On March 22, 2005 the towns of Satsuma (薩摩町), Miyanojō and Tsuruda merged to form the new town of Satsuma (さつま町).
“Satsuma District, Kagoshima” enters the record as district in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Satsuma, District and Kagoshima 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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1132367. VIAF identifies the subject as 125470912. The Library of Congress control number is n78062978. Authority coordinates are 31.942, 130.460. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2004.
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This entry incorporates text from “Satsuma District, Kagoshima” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.