is a town located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 8,847 in 4,125 households and a population density of 24 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The total area of the town was .
à Âdai is located in southeastern Kii Peninsula in central Mie Prefecture. An inland municipality, à Âdai extends almost the width of Mie Prefecture from east to west, but is narrow north to south.
à Âdai has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in à Âdai is 14.2 ðC. The average annual rainfall is 2,683 mm with September the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.7 ðC, and lowest in January, at around 3.7 ðC.
The population of à Âdai has decreased steadily over the past 60 years and is now less than it was a century ago.
The area of present-day à Âdai was part of the ancient Ise Province, but was mostly part of Kii Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The village of Misedani in Taki District, Mie Prefecture, was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. It was raised to town status in 1953. The town of à Âdai was established on September 30, 1956, by the merger Misedani with the village of Kawazoe. On January 1, 2006, the last remaining village in Mie Prefecture, Miyagawa Village, merged with à Âdai.
à Âdai has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 11 members. à Âdai contributes two members to the Mie Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Mie 4th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.
à Âdai serves as a commercial center for the surrounding region.
à Âdai has four public elementary schools and two public middle schools operated by the town government. The town has one public high school operated by the Mie Prefectural Board of Education.
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