Okegawa, Saitama
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is a city
Cities of Japan
||A is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as and , with the difference that they are not a component of...

 located in Saitama
Saitama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day.- History...

, Japan
Japan
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. It was founded on November 3, 1970, and as of 2003, the city has an estimated population
Population
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 of 73,881 and the density
Population density
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 of 2,924.82 persons per km². The total area is 25.26 km².

Trivia

On July 16, 2006, the world's first manned plane powered by conventional dry cell
Dry Cell
-Dry Cell's formation:Part of the band formed in 1998 when guitarist Danny Hartwell and drummer Brandon Brown met at the Ratt Show on the Sunset Strip. They later met up with then-vocalist Judd Gruenbaum. The original name of the band was "Beyond Control"....

 batteries
Battery (electricity)
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 undertook a demonstration flight in the city.

Transportation

  • Okegawa Station
    Okegawa Station
    is a railway station of Takasaki Line, East Japan Railway Company in Minami, in the city of Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.-Layout:The station has a side platform and an island platform.Tracks- Adjacent stations :-External links:*...

     on the Takasaki Line
    Takasaki Line
    The is a Japanese railway line which runs between Ōmiya Station in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture and Takasaki Station in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. It is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company ....

     (East Japan Railway Company
    East Japan Railway Company
    is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....

    )
  • National Highway Route 17
    Route 17 (Japan)
    National Route 17 is a highway on the island of Honshū in Japan. It originates at Nihonbashi in Chūō, Tokyo and terminates in the city of Niigata , where it meets Routes 7, 8, 49, 113 and 116)....


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