Kitauonuma District, Niigata

Kitauonuma (北魚沼郡, Kitauonuma-gun) was a district located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

History

On 1954 - areas now covering Ojiya were merged and elevated to city status.
On November 1, 2004 - towns of Horinouchi and Koide, and the villages of Hirokami, Irihirose, Sumon and Yunotani were merged to create the city of Uonuma; leaving the village of Kawaguchi the only municipality within the district.
On March 31, 2010 - the town of Kawaguchi was merged into the expanded city of Nagaoka. Kitauonuma District was dissolved as a result of this merger.

Niigata Prefecture

Niigata (capital)

Wards of Niigata	Kita Higashi Chūō Kōnan Akiha Minami Nishi Nishikan

Special cities	Jōetsu Nagaoka

Cities	Agano Gosen Itoigawa Kamo Kashiwazaki Minamiuonuma Mitsuke Murakami Myōkō Ojiya Sado Sanjō Shibata Tainai Tōkamachi Tsubame Uonuma

Higashikanbara District	Aga

Iwafune District	Awashimaura Sekikawa

Kariwa District	Kariwa

Kitakanbara District	Seirō

Minamikanbara District	Tagami

Minamiuonuma District	Yuzawa

Nakauonuma District	Tsunan

Nishikanbara District	Yahiko

Santō District	Izumozaki

List of mergers in Niigata Prefecture

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