Kitakata

Kitakata (喜多方市, Kitakata-shi) is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 46,269 living in 16,769 households as of 1 March 2020, a density of about 83 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 554.63 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 Fukushima Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.