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Shiroishi-chō

town in Kishima district, Saga prefecture, Japan
Place town_of_japan Q1206958

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
town of Japan
Inception
April 1, 1889, 2005[12][13]
Country
Japan[4]
Official website
www.town.shiroishi.lg.jp[15]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 33.181°, 130.143°[14]
Area
+99.56
Associated electoral district
Saga 2nd district
Legal form
ordinary local public entity
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Saga Prefecture, Kishima district[2][3]
Located in time zone
UTC+09:00[11]
Name in kana
しろいしちょう
Official name
福治村, 白石町
Population
26k (22k–26k, n=3)[16][17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 21,902 · 23,941 · 25,607 GeoNames 25,135 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Replaces
須古村, 橋下村, Kitaariake, Ariake, Fukudomi, 六角村
Shares border with
Kashima, Takeo, Ureshino, Ogi, Omachi, Kōhoku-machi[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Transliteration or transcription
Shiroishi-chō, Shiroishi-cho
🏷️ Also known as
en Shiroishi-chō en Shiroishi ar شيرويشي cs Široiši en-gb Shiroishi fa شیروایشی hu Siroisi id Shiroishi, Saga ja 白石町 ja 福治村 ko 시로이시정 ru Сироиси th ชิโรอิชิ uk Сіроїсі uk Шіроїші
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
257830655
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Shiroishi town hall.JPG ↗
Corporate Number (Japan)
7000020414255
Dantai code
414255
Freebase ID
/m/02d8qx
GNS Unique Feature ID
10702228
GeoLOD ID
mU2wAu
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
kfXYqQ
GeoNames ID
7391361
INaturalist place ID
34651
NDL Authority ID
00379502
OpenCorporates ID
jp/7000020414255
Show all 15 identifiers +3
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4013291
Topic's main category
Category:Shiroishi, Saga
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJwHdMJy38DdvDrFXxPbBP

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 6
Kashima, Ogi, Takeo, Ureshino, Kōhoku-machi, Omachi
← Shares border with 6
Kashima, Ogi, Takeo, Ureshino, Kōhoku-machi, Omachi
Contained subdivisions 2
Hizen-Ryūō Station, Hizen-Shiroishi Station
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Saga Prefecture, Kishima district
Associated electoral district 1
Saga 2nd district
Country 1
Japan
Instance of 1
town of Japan
Located in time zone 1
UTC+09:00
People born here 1
Ryosuke Shirahama
Topic's main category 1
Category:Shiroishi, Saga
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Shiroishi, Saga
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kishima district
← Primary destinations 1
Japan National Route 444
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Summary

Shiroishi-chō is a town of Japan[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Saga Prefecture[2], a prefecture of Japan[18], in Japan[19] and Kishima district[3], a district of Japan[20], in Japan[21], founded in 1878[22].

Physical Characteristics

Shiroishi-chō's area is recorded as 99.56 km²[23]. Population counts include {'amount': '+21902'}[16], {'amount': '+23941'}[17], and {'amount': '+25607'}[24].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . pref.saga.lg.jp. Retrieved . pref.saga.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [24] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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