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| | Nagaoka, Niigata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Nagaoka is located at longitude 138° E and latitude 37° N. The size of Nagaoka increased on April 1, 2005, when the town of Oguni, the village of Yamakoshi, the town of Nakanoshima, the town of Koshiji, and the town of Mishima in were absorbed into the city of Nagaoka. |
 | | A gift of one hundred sacks of rice from a neighboring province was sold to finance a new school during the reconstruction of Nagaoka, from which the anecdote of Kome Hyappyo was born. |
 | | Prior to the merger, the size of Nagaoka was 262.45 km² and the population was 192,292. |
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