Shimotsuke

Shimotsuke (下野市, Shimotsuke-shi) is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 60,274 living in 24,654 households as of 1 August 2020, a density of about 810 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 74.59 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.