Known as Iyo Province before the Meiji Restoration, Ehime Prefecture faces Japan's inland sea and forms the northeastern side of the island of Shikoku. It has a population over 1.3 million with about 40 percent of those people residing in its capital city of Matsuyama. The dialect spoken in Ehime is referred to as the Iyo dialect. Ehime has a warm climate and pleasant natural surroundings with long coastlines and mountains on the interior.
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