Sentence examples for prefecture encompasses from inspiring English sources

The prefecture encompasses several offshore islands, including Itsuku Island (also called Miya), noted for the Itsuku Island Shrine and other shrines and temples.

Each prefecture encompasses four to ten STMs based on medical resources, transportation, and geography, and are roughly comparable to Hospital Service Areas in the US.

The Ishikawa prefecture of Japan encompasses an area of 4,185 km2 and has a resident population of 1,160,000.

Among the observer missions was the independence movement from the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, which encompasses an island chain, the Ryukyus, that was its own kingdom until it was annexed by Japan in the 19th century.

A spokesman for the Fukushima Prefecture police, whose jurisdiction encompasses the evacuation zone, said the police had done spot checks on 3,378 addresses in the area over the past three weeks and found people at 63 sites; they were urged to leave.

Keihanshin, neither an administrative nor a political entity, encompasses Ōsaka fu (urban prefecture) and portions of Kyōto fu and the ken (prefectures) of Hyōgo and Shiga.

Situated between Kantō region (east) and Kinki region (west), it encompasses the ken (prefectures) of Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi, Nagano, Gifu, Shizuoka, and Aichi.

The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that the general public be exposed to a yearly dose of no more than 1 to 20 mSv following a nuclear accident; those two numbers represent the difference between a decontamination effort confined to about 500 sq km and one encompassing much of Fukushima prefecture and beyond.

It encompasses the to (metropolis) of Tokyo and includes part of Kanagawa ken (prefecture).

The epicenter was Fukushima Prefecture.

Fukui is a prefecture divided.