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| | Hyogo prefecture Article, Hyogoprefecture Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Southern Hyogo Prefecture was severely devastated by the magnitude 7.2 GreatHanshin earthquake of 1995, which destroyed major parts of Kobe and Awaji, as well as Takarazuka and neighboring Osaka prefecture, killing nearly5500 people. |
 | | Hyogo has coastlines on two seas: to the north, the Sea of Japan, to thesouth, the Inland Sea. |
 | | The northern portion is sparsely populated, except forthe city of Toyooka, and the central highlands are only populated by tiny villages.Most of Hyogo's population lives on the southern coast, which is part of the Osaka - Kyoto - Kobe metropolitanarea. Awajishima is an island in the Inland Sea, lying between Honshu and Shikoku. |
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