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Taki District (多気郡,Taki-gun) is a ruraldistrict located inMie Prefecture,Japan.
As of 2012, the district has an estimatedpopulation of 40,084 and apopulation density of 94.8 persons per km2. The total area of Taki is 507.03 km2.
Taki District was one of the traditional counties of formerIse Province. Modern Taki District was established within Mie Prefecture on April 1, 1889 during theMeiji period establishment of municipalities, and was organized into 17 villages. The village of Ōka was elevated to town status on June 20, 1919, followed by Ōyodo on February 1, 1924.
Ōka was renamed Taki in 1955, and Ōyodo was renamed Sanwa the same year. In 1953, the village of Misedani was raised to town status, becoming Ōdai on September 30, 1956. Sanwa became the town of Meiwa in 1958. On January 1, 2006 the village ofSeiwa merged into the town ofTaki and on January 10, 2006 the village ofMiyagawa merged into the town ofŌdai.
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