Tokuyama [city] - Tokuyama

Japanese: 徳山[市] - とくやま

An old city in the central-southern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture. It was incorporated as a city in 1935. It faces Ryo Bay on the Suo-Nada Sea and developed as a castle town of the Tokuyama Domain. It is connected to the Sanyo Main Line, the Shinkansen, and the Sanyo Expressway. Since the establishment of a naval coal briquettes (later a fuel depot) in 1904, it has become an important location for land and sea transportation, and an industrial city producing soda, iron plates, etc. After World War II, refineries and other facilities were established on the site of the fuel depot, and it developed into a petrochemical complex. Together with the factories of the neighboring former Shinnanyo City, it forms the Shunan Petrochemical Industrial Zone. The chemical industry accounts for 54.8% of the total industrial shipment value (1993). Mount Taika on the Oshima Peninsula is a scenic spot in the Seto Inland Sea National Park. Tokuyama Zoo, the largest in the Chugoku region, is located here, and Yuno Onsen springs can be found in the west. In April 2003, the city of Shunan merged with Shinnanyo City, Kumage Town in Kumage District, and Shikano Town in Tsuno District to form Shunan City. Area: ^{339.83 km2} . Population: 104,658 (2000).

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Japanese:

山口県中南部の旧市。1935年市制。周防灘(すおうなだ)に面する良湾に臨み，徳山藩の城下町として発達。山陽本線，新幹線，山陽自動車道が通じる。1904年海軍煉炭所（のちの燃料廠）がおかれてから海陸交通の要地，ソーダ，鉄板などの工業都市となり，第２次大戦後，燃料廠跡に製油所などが進出，石油化学コンビナートとして発展。隣接していた旧新南陽市の工場群とともに周南石油化学工業地帯を形成する。工業出荷額全体に占める化学分野の比率は54.8％（1993）にものぼる。大島半島の太華山は瀬戸内海国立公園中の景勝地。中国地方一の規模をもつ徳山動物園があり，西部に湯野温泉がわく。2003年４月，新南陽市，熊毛郡熊毛町，都濃郡鹿野町と合併して周南市となる。339.83km²。10万4658人（2000）。

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