Sotome,_Nagasaki

Sotome, Nagasaki

Sotome, Nagasaki

Dissolved municipality in Nishisonogi district, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan

Sotome (外海町, Sotome-chō) was a town located in Nishisonogi District, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

Ar Sotome

As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,412 and a density of 116.09 persons per km2. The total area was 46.62 km2 (18.00 sq mi).

On January 4, 2005, Sotome, along with the towns of Iōjima, Kōyagi, Nomozaki, Sanwa and Takashima (all from Nishisonogi District), was merged into the expanded city of Nagasaki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.[1]

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International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Japan

Twin towns — sister cities

Sotome is twinned with:

References

  1. [1]
    データでみる県勢: 日本国勢図会地域統計版 (in Japanese). 国勢社. 2006. p. 15.
  2. [2]
    "National Commission for Decentralised cooperation". Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) (in French). Archived from the original on 2013-11-27. Retrieved 2013-12-26.


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