Kashiwazaki

Kashiwazaki (柏崎市, Kashiwazaki-shi) is a city in Niigata Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 81,836 living in 34,883 households as of November 30, 2020, a density of about 187 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 442.03 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 Niigata Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.