Motoyoshi District, Miyagi

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Motoyoshi (本吉郡, Motoyoshi-gun) is a rural district in Miyagi Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan.

At present, the district consists only of the town of Minamisanriku with a combined population (As of 2017^[update]) of 11,860 people, a population density of 72.6 people per km² and an area of 163.4 square kilometres (63.1 sq mi). All of the city of Kesennuma and a small part of the city of Tome and part of the city of Ishinomaki were formerly part of the district.