Tamano, Okayama

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Tamano, Okayama

is a city

Cities of Japan

|||}A is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as and , with the difference that they are not a component of ....
located in the southern Okayama

Okayama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Okayama....
, 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....
.

As of 2003, the city has an estimated population

Population

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of 68,169 and the density

Population density

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of 658.26 persons per km². The total area is 103.56 km².

The city was officially founded on August 3, 1940.

JR Uno Line connect it to Okayama.

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is a city

Cities of Japan

|||}A is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as and , with the difference that they are not a component of ....
located in the southern Okayama

Okayama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Okayama....
, Japan

Japan

Population

File:Population density.pngIn biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings....
of 68,169 and the density

Population density

Great Seto Bridge

The , or Seto-Ohashi Bridge, is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefecture prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea....
was opened, there was train ferry between Uno Port in Tamano and Takamatsu on Shikoku

Shikoku

is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of Kyushu island. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima ....
and Tamano was the major entrance to Shikoku. Still today there are many ferry line between Uno port and Takamatsu, Shodoshima

Shodoshima

is an island located in the Inland Sea of Japan. The name means literally "Island of Small Beans". There are two main towns on the island: Tonosho, Kagawa and Shodoshima, Kagawa, comprising the district of Shozu District, Kagawa....
and Naoshima Islands.

Its major industry was ship

Ship

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construction and metal fining. Other industry is fishing.

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in Japanese