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Districts of Japan - Definition
 

A district ("gun" in Japanese) was the administrative unit during the period from 1890 to 1923, equivalent to the county of the United States, at the level below prefecture and above city, town or village.

It is still used in the Japanese addressing system to identify towns or villages.

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