Sister cities of Echizen, Fukui

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Sister cities of Echizen, Fukui — sistercity.info</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/css/stylesheet.css?f" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico?f" /> <script async="async" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/common.js?f"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/leaflet.css?v=0.6.4" />  <script src="/assets/js/leaflet.js?v=0.6.4"></script> </head> <body> <div class="header-wrapper"> <div class="header"> <a href="/">Sister Cities of the World</a> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Home</a> <span class="unicode-arrow">▶</span> <a href="/countries/">Countries</a> <span class="unicode-arrow">▶</span> <a href="/countries/jp.html">Japan</a> <span class="unicode-arrow">▶</span> Echizen, Fukui</div> <div class="ad ad-top"> <script>  </script> </div> <div class="content"> <h1>Sister cities of Echizen, Fukui</h1> <ul class="sister-cities"> <li class="flag-list-elem"> <div class="flag flag-us"></div> <div class="label"><a href="Montevallo%2C%20Alabama.html">Montevallo, Alabama</a> <span title="Reciprocal link">⇄</span></div> </li> </ul> <div id="map" class="map"></div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <div class="city-article"> <p><b>Echizen</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">越前市</span><span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display:none">,</span> <i>Echizen-shi</i>)</span> is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. </p> <p>As of August 1, 2008, the city has an estimated population of 86,562 and a population density of 375 persons per km². The total area is 230.75 km². </p> <p>The modern city of Echizen was established on October 1, 2005, from the merger of the city of Takefu, and the town of Imadate (from Imadate District); although the Echizen Basin has been an important regional center for over 1,500 years. It has many former castle sites and prehistoric archeological sites. Echizen is known for its shrines and temples – well over 300. For a year it was the home of Murasaki Shikibu, author of <i>The Tale of Genji</i>. Her father was governor of Echizen Province in the Heian period. </p> </div> <p class="license">Content on this page is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false">CC-BY-SA</a> from the authors of the following Wikipedia pages: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20twin%20towns%20and%20sister%20cities%20in%20Japan" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false">List of twin towns and sister cities in Japan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echizen%2C%20Fukui" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false">Echizen, Fukui</a>. Note that the data on Wikipedia is highly unreliable. In many cases, sister cities are missing or wrongly listed. Some cities also have different levels of partnership. If you find an error, please make a correction on the relevant Wikipedia pages and cite your sources.</p> </div> <div class="ad ad-bottom"> <script>  </script> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="/privacy-policy.html">Privacy Policy</a> <span class="sep">•</span> <a href="/contact.html">Contact</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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