Kubiki, Niigata

Kubiki (頸城村; -mura) was a village located in Nakakubiki District, Niigata, Japan.

As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 9,691 and a density of 252.76 persons per km². The total area was 38.34 km².

On January 1, 2005 Kubiki, along with the town of Yasuzuka, the villages of Maki, Ōshima and Uragawara, all from Higashikubiki District, the towns of Itakura, Kakizaki, Ōgata and Yoshikawa, the villages of Kiyosato, Nakagō and Sanwa, all from Nakakubiki District, and the town of Nadachi, from Nishikubiki District, was absorbed into the expanded city of Jōetsu.[1]

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