Awa Province (Chiba)
Awa Province (安房国, Awa-no kuni?) was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture. It lies on the tip of the Boso Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Bōshū (房州?) or Anshū (安州?). Awa Province in Shikoku phonetically has the same name, but is written with different kanji (阿波国).
Awa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. Under the Engishiki classification system, Awa was ranked as a "middle country" (中国) and a "far country" (遠国).
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