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Ōi-chō

town in Oi District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
City Town of Japan Q384981

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
town of Japan
Inception
March 3, 2006[13]
Official website
www.town.ohi.fukui.jp[14]

Location

Country
Japan[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.481°, 135.617°
Located in or next to body of water
Sea of Japan, Wakasa Bay, Obama Bay[5][6][7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Fukui Prefecture, Oi district[2][3]
Shares border with
Nantan, Obama, Takahama, Ayabe, Takashima[8][9][10][11][12]

Population and size

Area
212.19 km²[22]
Population
8.6k (8.0k–8.6k, n=3)[15][16][17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 7,997 · 8,325 · 8,580 GeoNames 8,738 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Associated electoral district
Fukui 3rd district (2006–2013), Fukui 2nd district (2013–present)[25]
Legal form
ordinary local public entity[20]
Name in kana
おおいちょう[21]
Replaces
Ōi (2006), Natashō (2006)[18][19]
Transliteration or transcription
Ōi-chō, Ooi-chou[23][24]
🏷️ Also known as
en Oi en Oi Town en Oi-cho ar أوي cs Ói de Ōi de Oi de Ohi fa اوی ja おおい町 ko 오이 정 (후쿠이 현) nl Oi (Fukui) nl Oi (gemeente Fukui) pt Distrito de Õi pt Õi ru Ои th โออิ tr Ōi, Fukui uk Ой uk Ой, Фукуй
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
132537450
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81126207
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Oi Town Hall.jpg ↗
Corporate Number (Japan)
2000020184837
Dantai code
184837
Freebase ID
/m/03j3jz
GNS Unique Feature ID
-240,031
GeoLOD ID
jigerE
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
AT56JQ
GeoNames ID
1854525
INaturalist place ID
100823
J9U entity ID
987007562170405171
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NDL Authority ID
01121953
OpenCorporates organization ID
jp/2000020184837
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4799765
Topic's main category
Category:Ōi, Fukui

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Obama, Ayabe, Nantan, Takashima, Takahama
← Shares border with 5
Obama, Ayabe, Nantan, Takashima, Takahama
Contained subdivisions 4
Ōi Nuclear Power Plant, Obama Bay, Wakasa-Hongō Station, Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway
Located in or next to body of water 3
Sea of Japan, Wakasa Bay, Obama Bay
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Fukui Prefecture, Oi district
Associated electoral district 1
Fukui 2nd district
Country 1
Japan
Instance of 1
town of Japan
Located in time zone 1
UTC+09:00
Topic's main category 1
Category:Ōi, Fukui
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Ōi, Fukui
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Oi district
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Summary

Ōi-chō is a town of Japan[1].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . pref.fukui.lg.jp. Retrieved . pref.fukui.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . BS 4812:1972. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . Cabinet Notice on the Romanization of Japanese (December 22, 2025). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46950: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 28w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Area → 212.19 square kilometre
    Replaces → Ōi, Natashō
    Shares border with → Nantan, Obama, Takahama +1
    Located in or next to body of water → Sea of Japan, Wakasa Bay, Obama Bay
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: Added ur:اوئی، فوکوئی"
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