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Miyagi Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (483 words) |
 | Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. |
 | Miyagi Prefecture is located in the central part of Tohoku, facing the Pacific Ocean, and contains Tohoku's largest city, Sendai. |
 | Although Miyagi has a good deal of fishing and agriculture, producing a great deal of rice and livestock, it is dominated by the manufacturing industries around Sendai, particularly electronics, appliances, and food processing. |
| Encyclopedia: Miyagi prefecture (4032 words) |
 | Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県; Miyagi-ken) is located in Tohoku region on Honshu island, Japan. |
 | Matsushima is known as one of the three most scenic coasts of Japan, with a bay full of 260 small island covered in pine groves. |
 | A district (郡; gun) was the administrative unit during the period from 1890 to 1923, which is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, and was ranked at the level below prefecture and above city, town or village. |