We clarified that Central City Regions which residents recognized for Municipality they lives in Hokkaido. Their Recognition lead their area of daily life, we call it, "Regional Local Community".When we compare Regional Local Community to Area of Municipalities which already Merged, the following became clear.
1) Merger of Municipalities ratio is high in the Regional Local Community. 2) Participation of Central City Region to Merger of Municipalities ratio is low. 3) Merger of Municipalities ratio is low in small scale Regional Local Community. 4) Merger of Municipalities lato is low in Municipality which far from the Central City Region.3) and 4) are problems due to a characteristic of Hokkaido. Than the above, It is necessary to consider the Central City Regions on Wide-Area Administration, and the combination that accepted the situation.
