Kibi Province

was a very old province of Japan in the area as Okayama Prefecture and eastern Hiroshima Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kibi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 512. It was sometimes called .

History
Kibi was divided into Bizen, Bitchū, and Bingo provinces in the late 7th century.The name of these provinces was created using a kanji character from Kibi.  A suffix was added according to the distance from the capital -- Bizen (備+zen = "near"), Bitchū (備+chū = "middle"), and Bingo (備+go = "far").

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

Notes

Other websites 
  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Okayama Prefecture
Category:Hiroshima Prefecture