Nanao

Nanao is a town positioned in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2018, the town had an estimated populace of 53,819 in 22212 households, and a population density of 170 persons in keeping with km². The overall location of the metropolis changed into 318.32 rectangular kilometres. Nanao is the fifth largest metropolis by using population in Ishikawa, in the back of Kanazawa, Hakusan, Komatsu, and Kaga. The location around Nanao was part of historical Noto Province and contained the Nara duration provincial capital and provincial temple.

During the Sengoku Period 1467–1568, Nanao Castle changed into a main stronghold of the Hatakeyama clan, and become contested by way of the Uesugi extended family and Maeda clan. The area have become component Kaga Domain underneath the Edo length Tokugawa shogunate, aside from the Tsuruhama area, which became retained via the shogunate immediately as tenryo territory. Following the Meiji restoration, the vicinity was organised into Kashima District, Ishikawa.

The metropolis of Nanao was established with the creation of the modern-day municipalities machine on April 1, 1889. It changed into raised to town repute on July 20, 1939. On October 1, 2004, Nanao extended through annexing the neighbouring municipalities of Nakajima, Notojima and Tatsuruhama all from Kashima District. On March 25, 2007, the 2007 Noto earthquake induced a few belongings harm in Nanao, but no fatalities.