Murayama

Murayama (村山市, Murayama-shi) is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 23,643 living in 8133 households as of 1 February 2020, a density of about 120 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 196.98 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 Yamagata Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.