Shirasawa, Fukushima

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This article is about the village in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. There is another village with the same name in Gunma Prefecture, see Shirasawa, Gunma.

Shirasawa (白沢村; -mura) is a village located in Adachi District, Fukushima, Japan.

As of 2003, the village has an estimated population of 9,388 as of September 2005 and a density of 191.24 persons per km². The total area is 48.40 km².

Shirasawa has an average of 4.36 members per household, which is the highest in Japan.

Shirasawa was founded when the villages of Shiraiwa (白岩村;-mura) and Wagisawa(和木沢村;-mura) merged in April of 1955. Shirasawa is in talks to merge with neighboring Motomiya (本宮町)to form a new city in 2007.