Shibata

Shibata (新発田市, Shibata-shi) is a city in Niigata Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 96,236 living in 37,017 households as of 31 December 2020, a density of about 179 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 533.10 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 Niigata Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.