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Villages of Japan

A village (村 mura or son) is a local administrative unit. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city (shi), and town (cho). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.

See also: Municipality of Japan, Japanese addressing system.

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