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| Capital | Kanazawa |
| Region: | Chubu |
| Island: | Honshu |
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Ranked 35th 4,185.22 kmē |
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Ranked 36th 1,180,744 |
| Districts: | 8 |
| MunicipalitiesA municipality or general-purpose district (see also: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessa: | 41 |
| ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 codes for Japan cover 47 prefectures. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code JP for Japan, the second part is two-digit-numeric. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for us: | JP-17 |
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| Pref. FlowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and: | Black lilycanadense Canada lily L. candidum Madonna lily L. lancifolium Tiger lily L. bulbiferum Orange lily and about 100 more species The showy and large flowered plants of the genus Lilium are the true lily plants. They are placed in the lily family, the Liliace (Fritillaria camtschatcensis) |
| Pref. TreeThis article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). oak tree in Denmark A tree can be defined as a large perennial woody plant. Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally: | Elkhorn cypressCypress is the name applied to many plants in the conifer family Cupressaceae (cypress family). Most plants bearing the common name cypress are in the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis but several other genera in the family carry the name: Cupressaceae C (Thujopsis dolabrata) |
| Pref. BirdFor other meanings of bird see bird (disambiguation). Many see text Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds in: | Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) |
Ishikawa prefecture (石川県 Ishikawa-ken) is located in the Chubu region on Honshu island, Japan. The capital is Kanazawa.