Mitsuke

Mitsuke (見附市, Mitsuke-shi) is a city in Niigata Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 39,908 living in 15,139 households as of 31 December 2020, a density of about 510 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 77.01 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.