Kasaoka

Kasaoka is a city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, written 笠岡市 in Japanese and romanized Kasaoka-shi. As of 1 March 2023 the city had an estimated population of 45,404, living in 21,987 households, with a population density of 330 persons per square kilometre. Its total area is 136.24 square kilometres, or 52.60 square miles. The municipal district also includes 31 outlying islands, seven of them inhabited, in the Kasaoka Islands archipelago in the Seto Inland Sea. The English Wikipedia lead gives only this location, population and area information, so history and other facts are left for a later pass with further sources.