- Shirahama, Chiba
Shirahama (白浜町; -machi) was a town located in Awa District, Chiba,
Japan .As of
2003 , the town had an estimatedpopulation of 5,807 and a density of 340.19 persons per km². The total area was 17.07 km².On
March 20 ,2006 , the municipalities of Tomiura, Tomiyama, Miyoshi, Shirahama, Chikura, Maruyama and Wada (all from Awa District) merged to form the city of Minamiboso, and Shirahama ceased to exist as a municipality. Prior to the merger, Shirahama was known as Shirahama-machi in Japanese. Subsequently, it has become known as Shirahama-cho. Both "machi" and "cho" are written the same way in Japanese, but the different pronunciations convey the information that Shirahama is now a neighborhood within Minamiboso rather than its own municipality.External links
* [http://www.town.shirahama.chiba.jp/ Shirahama official website] in Japanese
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