Kahoku

Kahoku (かほく市, Kahoku-shi) is a city in Ishikawa Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 35,188 living in 12787 households as of 31 January 2018, a density of about 550 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 64.44 square kilometres. As a shi, it is one of the three kinds of municipality used in Japan, alongside towns and villages, and it runs its local administration through a mayor and a city council within Ishikawa Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.