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Chūō-ku (中央区, Chūō-ku, literally the "Central ward") is a ward (pop. 137,500) of Saitama City, Japan. It is surrounded by Sakura-ku (to the west), Minami-ku (south), Urawa-ku (east) and Ōmiya-ku (north) of Saitama city. It is a part of the Greater Tokyo Area and located about 20 kilometres north of central Tokyo.
Despite its name, it is not quite as the administrative (Urawa-ku) or commercial / business (Ōmiya-ku) centre of the city. It is rather the intersection of the sprawls from those centres.
[edit] History
On May 1, 2001 the city of Yono merged with Ōmiya and Urawa to form the new capital City of Saitama. When April 2003 Saitama City became a city designated by government ordinance, Chūō-ku was created to cover the area of whole former Yono city and small parts of former Urawa and Ōmiya cities. (Saitama New Urban Center's west of Utsunomiya Line.)
