Iwate岩手県
Iwate-ken·いわてけん·県 (ken), prefecture
The largest prefecture on Honshū, with the Kitakami mountains inland and the ria coastline of Sanriku on the Pacific side.
Facts
How an address here begins
岩手県盛岡市…
Iwate-ken, Morioka-shi, …
The prefecture comes first, then the municipality. The guide explains the rest of the address, and the map reads any address you paste into it.
Neighbouring prefectures
Every municipality in Iwate市区町村
33 local governments, each with its own mayor and assembly. Every one links to its boundary on the map.
Cities市
Districts, with their towns and villages郡 · 町 · 村
A district is a name that groups towns and villages in an address. It has no office and no election. The towns and villages are governments.
Boundaries: MLIT 国土数値情報. Population: 2020 Population Census (令和2年国勢調査). Area: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (全国都道府県市区町村別面積調, 2020). Municipality counts are from the boundary data on the map.