Kataoka District, Gunma

Location of Kataoka District within Gunma Prefecture

Historic Map of Gunma District:
41. Kataoka, areas 1 through 38 were formerly Nishigunma District

Kataoka District (片岡郡, Kataoka-gun) was formerly a rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The district is now entirely part of the city of Takasaki.

Kataoka District was created on December 7, 1878 with the reorganization of Gunma Prefecture into districts. It included 3 villages, which were formerly part of the holdings of Takasaki Domain in Kōzuke Province under the Tokugawa shogunate. With the establishment of the municipalities system on April 1, 1889 the area was organized as a single village (Kataoka).

On April 1, 1896, the district was merged with Nishigunma District into Gunma District

Gunma Prefecture

Maebashi (capital)

Core cities	Maebashi Takasaki

Special cities	Isesaki Ōta

Cities	Annaka Fujioka Kiryū Midori Numata Shibukawa Tatebayashi Tomioka

Agatsuma District	Higashiagatsuma Kusatsu Naganohara Nakanojō Takayama Tsumagoi

Kanra District	Kanra Shimonita Nanmoku

Kitagunma District	Yoshioka Shintō

Ōra District	Chiyoda Itakura Meiwa Ōizumi Ōra

Sawa District	Tamamura

Tano District	Kanna Ueno

Tone District	Minakami Katashina Kawaba Shōwa

List of mergers in Gunma Prefecture

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