Saitama Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kanto region of Honshu.
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Saitama Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kanto region of Honshu.
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Saitama Prefecture District was one of Musashi's 21 ritsuryo districts.
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Saitama Prefecture area was historically known as a fertile agricultural region which produced much of the food for the Kanto region.
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Kawagoe Prefecture was consolidated with other territories into Iruma Prefecture which consisted of 13 districts of Musashi in the Western part of present-day Saitama.
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The first city in Saitama Prefecture was only established in 1922 when Kawagoe Town from Iruma District became Kawagoe City.
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Saitama Prefecture is bordered by Tokyo, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Nagano, and Yamanashi Prefectures.
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The northern and north-western border lines with Gunma Saitama Prefecture are marked by the Tone River and the Kanagawa River and the drainage divides of the Arakawa River and Kanagawa River.
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Topography of Saitama Prefecture is largely divided by the Hachioji Tectonic Line, which runs through Kodama, Ogawa, and Hanno, into the western mountain area and the eastern lowland area.
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Saitama Prefecture has a number of sister city relationships with states and a province as listed below .
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