Ageo

Ageo is a metropolis placed in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of one February 2016, the metropolis had an expected population of 224,841, and a populace density of 4940 individuals consistent with km². Its total region is 45.51 rectangular kilometres. Ageo-shuku, a submit town at the Nakasendo highway flourished at some point of the Edo length. Ageo's rail station opened in 1883. In 1889, Ageo-juku merged with the hamlets of Ageoshimo, Kashiwaza, Kasugayatsu and Yatsu to shape the metropolis of Ageo with the status quo of the municipalities device on April 1, 1889.

The two towns of Hirakata and Haraichi and the 3 villages of Kamihira, Oishi and Oya merged with the city of Ageo on January 1, 1955, which was expanded town reputation on July 15, 1958. A idea to merge with the neighboring town of Saitama turned into rejected by using referendum in 2001. Ageo has 22 fundamental faculties, eleven center faculties and 5 high schools, in addition to two unique education schools. Ageo became a mentioned agricultural location properly into the twentieth century. In the second one half of the twentieth century, severa metallurgical and car factories had been built.