Ōsaki, Kagoshima

Ōsaki is a town in Soo District, Kagoshima Prefecture, in the Kyushu region of southern Japan. The Japanese name of the town is written 大崎町 and read Ōsaki-chō. According to the English Wikipedia article, the town had an estimated population of 12,006 people living in 6,545 households as of 1 April 2024, which works out to a population density of about 120 people per square kilometre. The town covers a total area of 100.64 square kilometres, or 38.86 square miles. It is one of the municipal-scale towns of Japan, the administrative level that sits below a prefecture and its districts, and it takes its place in the Atlas as a small settlement of Eastern Asia whose own page can later be deepened with its history, economy and geography.