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Gifu
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(IMAizuM1), a city of Japan, capital of the ken (government) of Central Nippon, which comprises the two provinces of Mino and Hida. Pop. about 41,000. It lies E. by N. of Lake Biwa, on the Central railway, on a tributary of the river Kiso, which flows to the Bay of Miya Uro. Manufactures of silk and paper goods are carried on. The ken has an area of about 4000 sq. m. and is thickly peopled, the population exceeding 1,000,000. The whole district is subject to frequent earthquakes.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gifu'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gifu.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gifu'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gifu.html. 1910.
