is a town

Towns of Japan

A town is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture , city , and village...

 located in Nakagawa (Tokachi) District

Nakagawa (Tokachi) District, Hokkaido

is a district located in Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan. There is a district with the same name in Kamikawa Subprefecture, see Nakagawa District, Hokkaidō....

, Tokachi

Tokachi Subprefecture

is a subprefecture of Hokkaidō, Japan corresponding to the old province of Tokachi. As of 2004 its estimated population is 360,802 and its area is 10,830.99 km².Tokachi-Obihiro Airport is in the city of Obihiro.- Geography :-Towns and villages by district:...

, Hokkaidō, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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On February 6, 2006 the village of Chūrui

Churui, Hokkaido

was a village located in Hiroo District, Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2004, the village had an estimated population of 1,802 and a density of 13.10 persons per km². The total area was 137.54 km²....

, from Hiroo District

Hiroo District, Hokkaido

is a district located in Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2004, the district has an estimated population of 16,735 and a density of 10.80 persons per km²...

, was merged into Makubetsu.

As of 2008, the town has an estimated population

Population

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 of 27,343 and a density

Population density

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 of 73.15 persons per km². The total area is 340.46 km².

Makubetsu is the birth place of park golf

Park golf

Park golf , a form of golf played in a park, was invented in Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1983. Esthetically, it resembles a sport somewhere between golf and croquet. The competitive object of the game is to hit the ball into a hole with a club in the fewest number of strokes...

 and as of 2006 has no less than ten individual courses.

Miho Takagi is a promising young speedskater who was born and raised in Makubetsu and is on Japan's Olympic Team for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

External links

• Official website in Japanese