page_title: Minamitama District, Tokyo
hierarchical_section_title: Minamitama District, Tokyo
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 南多摩郡の町村。
context_page_description: Minamitama was a district or county of Tokyo, Japan. It was created in the early Meiji era when the old Tama District of Musashi Province was divided into four parts and split between Kanagawa and Tokyo. It lost its status as an administrative unit in the 1920s when county governments and councils were abolished across the country. As a geographical unit, it ceased to exist in 1971 when its last two remaining municipalities were promoted to independent cities.
context_section_description: Minamitama (南多摩郡, Minamitama-gun, South Tama) was a district or county (gun) of Tokyo (Metropolis/{refecture), Japan. It was created in the early Meiji era when the old Tama District of Musashi Province was divided into four parts and split between Kanagawa and Tokyo. It lost its status as an administrative unit in the 1920s when county governments and councils were abolished across the country. As a geographical unit, it ceased to exist in 1971 when its last two remaining municipalities were promoted to independent cities.
caption: Administrative divisions in the three Western Tama counties in 1889, Minamitama in colours:
  
  1. is the county seat, the town of Hachiōji. 2. to 20. represent the 19 villages.
  
  Different colours indicate present-day municipalities:
  
  purple – Hachiōji-shi, red – Machida-shi, orange – Hino-shi, blue – Tama (15.) and Inagi (16.) exist without merger since 1889.
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