Agatsuma District, Gunma


Agatsuma District is a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of January 2015, the district had an estimated population of 56,994 and an area of 1,278.55 km², with a population density of 44.6 people per square kilometer.

Towns and villages

  1. former Agatsuma
  2. former Azuma
  3. Kusatsu
  4. former Kuni
  5. Takayama
  6. Tsumagoi
  7. Nakanojō
  8. Naganohara

    History

The area of Agatsuma District was formerly part of Kōzuke Province, and per a census conducted at the start of the Meiji period, consisted of 42 villages administered as tenryō directly by the Tokugawa shogunate and four towns and 44 villages administered as hatamoto-territory, primarily by the Oguri-clan.
With the establishment of the municipality system on April 1, 1889, the area was organized into three towns and ten villages