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- Instance of
- province of Japan
- Has part
- Kitaoka Shrine
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Saikaidō
- Body of water
- Ariake Sea
- Shares border with
- Bungo Province
- Image
- Provinces of Japan-Higo.svg
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- Commons category
- Higo Province
- topic's main category
- Category:Higo Province
- name in kana
- ひごのくに
- replaces
- Hi Province
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Kumamoto Prefecture
- time of earliest written record
- 0696-00-00
- coextensive with
- Kumamoto Prefecture
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Higo Province highlighted
Higo Province (肥後国, Higo no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [çiꜜ.ɡo (no kɯ.ɲi), çiꜜ.ŋo-, çi.ɡoꜜ-, çi.ŋoꜜ-]) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū. It was sometimes called Hishū (肥州), with Hizen Province. Higo bordered on Chikugo, Bungo, Hyūga, Ōsumi, and Satsuma Provinces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Higo Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.