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Provinces of Japan
Before the modern
prefecture system
was established, the islands of
Japan
were divided into tens of
kuni
(国,
countries
), usually known in
English
as
provinces
. Each
province
was divided into
gun
(郡,
district
s, earlier called
kōri
).
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