Ōtawara

Ōtawara (大田原市, Ōtawara-shi) is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 72,189 living in 30,136 households as of 1 July 2020, a density of about 210 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 354.36 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 Tochigi Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.