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Rikuzen (???; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, which today composes the most part of Miyagi Prefecture
Miyagi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai, Miyagi....
 and some parts of Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
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Rikuzen (???; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, which today composes the most part of Miyagi Prefecture
Miyagi Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai, Miyagi....
 and some parts of Iwate Prefecture
Iwate Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island. The capital is Morioka, Iwate....
.

History

  • December 7, 1868 (January 19, 1869 according to the Gregorian calendar
    Gregorian calendar

    The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
    ) Rikuzen is separated from Mutsu province
    Mutsu Province

    was an old provinces of Japan of Japan, made up of the present-day Prefectures of Japans of Fukushima Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture, and the municipalities of Kazuno, Akita and Kosaka, Akita in Akita Prefecture....
  • 1872 A census estimates the population at 534,609


Districts

  • Kesen
  • Motoyoshi
  • Tome
  • Kurihara
  • Tamatsukuri
  • Oshika
  • Monou
  • Toda
  • Shida
  • Kami
  • Kurokawa
  • Miyagi
  • Natori
  • Shibata