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Shiozawa

dissolved municipality in Minamiuonuma district, Niigata prefecture, Japan
Organization dissolved_municipality_of_japan Q797959

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
dissolved municipality of Japan, human settlement[5]
Official name
塩沢村, 塩沢町

Status and dates

Inception
April 1, 1889, November 6, 1900[7][8]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
October 1, 2005[9]
Replaced by
Minamiuonuma
Replaces
Yoshizato, Tochikubo, Tomizane, Nakamokuraiden, Kamishima, Ōtomi, Nakanoshima, Ishiuchi, Ueda[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

Location

Country
Japan[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.039°, 138.847°, 🗺️ 37.038°, 138.849°[10][11]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Minamiuonuma district, Niigata Prefecture[2][3]
More facts +9
Located in
Minamiuonuma district, Niigata Prefecture
Area
190.12
Associated electoral district
Niigata 5th district (1994–2005)
Coordinates
🗺️ 37.039°, 138.847°, 🗺️ 37.038°, 138.849°
Different from
Shiozawa
Dissolved
October 1, 2005
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Minamiuonuma
Name in kana
しおざわまち
Twinned administrative body
Lillehammer[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Shiozawa ja 塩沢町 ko 시오자와정 ru Сиодзава uk Шіодзава
🔖 Identifiers · 10
VIAF cluster ID
257833875
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Shiozawa Town.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/03j6dq
GNS Unique Feature ID
-243764
GeoLOD ID
74IQ1V
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
UiOrFP
GeoNames ID
1851952
NDL Authority ID
00391856
Who's on First ID
890519223
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJwMDWQ6f4fDywPCjvbGHC
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🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Niigata Prefecture, Minamiuonuma district
Associated electoral district 1
Niigata 5th district
Country 1
Japan
Different from 1
Shiozawa
Instance of 1
human settlement
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Minamiuonuma
Replaced by 1
Minamiuonuma
Twinned administrative body 1
Lillehammer
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Shiozawa
← Location of creation 1
Hokuetsu Seppu
← Replaces 1
Minamiuonuma
← Twinned administrative body 1
Lillehammer
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Summary

Shiozawa is a dissolved municipality of Japan[1].

Body

Identity

Official names include 塩沢村[20] and 塩沢町[21].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . geoshape.ex.nii.ac.jp. geoshape.ex.nii.ac.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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