Akitakata

Akitakata (安芸高田市, Akitakata-shi) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 26,810 living in 13,319 households as of 1 May 2023. The municipality covers a total area of 537.75 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 Hiroshima Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.