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Nemuro Province
(
根室?
,
Nemuro-no kuni
)
was a
old province
of
Japan
on the island of
Hokkaido
. The history of the province started in 1869 and ended in 1882.
The
boundaries
of this ancient province are generally
mirrored
in what is today called
Nemuro Subprefecture
.
After 1869, the northern Japanese island was known as Hokkaido.
[1]
Regional
subdivisions
were established. Nemuro Province was one of the new
entities
which were created in 1869.
[2]
In the
Meiji period
, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan including Nemuro Province were
reformed
in the 1870s.
[3]
In 1882, Nemuro and the other ten provinces of Hokkaido were reorganized as
Hakodate Prefecture
,
Sapporo Prefecture
and
Nemuro Prefecture
.
[4]
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