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Ageo
Japan
Ageo, city, Saitama ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It lies on the terrace between the Ara River (west) and the Ayase River (east).
Ageo was a former post town between Tokyo and Maebashi that was connected to Tokyo (25 miles [40 km] southeast) in 1883. It remained the market centre of the neighbouring agricultural region until the mid-1950s, when machinery, rubber, and metallurgy industries were developed in the city. Pop. (2005) 220,232; (2010) 223,926.
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