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GIFU (IMAIZUnti)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 5 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIFU (IMAIZUnti)  , a
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city of
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Japan,
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capital of the
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ken (
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government) of Central Nippon, which comprises the two provinces of Mino and Hida . Pop. about 41,000 . It lies E. by N. of
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Lake
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Biwa, on the Central railway, on a tributary cf the
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river Kiso, which flows to the
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Bay of Miya Uro . Manufactures of
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silk and
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paper goods are carried on . The ken has an
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area of about 4000 sq. m. and is thickly peopled, the
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population exceeding 1,000,000 . The whole
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district is subject to frequent earthquakes .

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