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Yamaguchi (city)
capital city of Yamaguchi prefecture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yamaguchi is a city in western Japan. It is the capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture. The city had a population of 198,971 people in 2010. Yamaguchi was made when 40 towns were merged on April 1, 1889.
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