Koriyama

Koriyama is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of one April 2018, the metropolis has an predicted populace of 333,108 humans in 140,913 families, and a populace density of 435 people in keeping with km². The total place of the city is 757.20 square kilometres. Koriyama is special as a middle metropolis and functions as a business middle for Fukushima Prefecture.

Koriyama is the second largest conurbation in the Tohoku region. Koriyama originated as a nearby governmental center within the Nara duration, when the location was at the frontier of Yamato agreement of the Tohoku region. The surrounding region advanced into shoen managed via numerous samurai clans in the Heian and Kamakura periods. Nearby centers, including Nihonmatsu evolved into castle cities, Koriyama remained as a industrial center and thrived as a put up metropolis due to its significance as a traffic focal factor into the Edo length and become part of the territory of Nihonmatsu Domain.

With the status quo of the present day municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the town of Koriyama became mounted inside Asaka District. In the early Meiji period, many dispossessed samurai had been assigned undeveloped lands in the region to reclaim and as a result, the populace grew and region evolved into an agricultural center. The relative abundance of hydroelectric energy also helped with the improvement of local industry.