Former Provinces
Names and parts of names of former provinces appear in many modern place names:
- Yamato: Yamato-Koriyama, a city in Nara Prefecture
- Hitachi: naka, a city in Ibaraki Prefecture
- Sagami River in Kanagawa Prefecture
- Tango: Tango Peninsula in Kyoto
- Chūetsu, part of Niigata Prefecture and location of the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake: its name incorporates a kanji from Echigo Province (as do many other place names in the region)
Read more about this topic: Japanese Place Names