Takizawa

Takizawa (滝沢市, Takizawa-shi) is a city in Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 55,325 living in 23,270 households as of 31 March 2020, a density of about 300 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 182.46 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 Iwate Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.