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[[Image:Otobe in Hiyama Subprefecture.gif|thumb|200px|The area of Nishi Districtin Hiyama Subprefecture.]]
{{Nihongo|'''Nishi'''|爾志郡|Nishi-gun}} is a [[districts of Japan|district]] located in [[Hiyama Subprefecture]], [[Hokkaidō]], [[Japan]].

As of 2004, the district has an estimated [[population]] of 8,357 and a [[population density|density]] of 21.82 persons per km². The total area is 382.93 km².

==Towns and villages==
*[[Otobe, Hokkaidō|Otobe]]

==Merger==
*On October 1, 2005 the town of [[Yakumo, Hokkaidō|Yakumo]], from [[Yamakoshi District, Hokkaidō|Yamakoshi District]], absorbed the town of [[Kumaishi, Hokkaidō|Kumaishi]], from Nishi District, [[Hiyama Subprefecture]], to form the new town of [[Yakumo, Hokkaidō|Yakumo]], now in the newly-created [[Futami District, Hokkaidō|Futami District]]. The former town of Kumaishi moved to Oshima Subprefecture at the same time.

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[[Category:Districts in Hokkaido]]

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[[ko:니시 군]]
[[it:Distretto di Nishi]]
[[ja:爾志郡]]
[[uk:Повіт Нісі]]
[[zh-yue:爾志郡]]
[[zh:爾志郡]]

Revision as of 01:15, 30 January 2013