Capital of Japan:
Tokyo (東京都)
Area of Japan: 377,930 km² (145,920 mi²) (
62nd)
Population of Japan: 123,753,041 (
12th)
- (2024 est.) Location: Western North Pacific, off Eastern Asia coast
Languages of Japan: Japanese,
Ainu Religions of Japan: Shintoist,
Buddhist,
Christian
Currency:
Japanese yen (
¥) (
JPY)
Organizations: United Nations, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Borders countries: None.
Coastline: 29,751 km (18,486 mi)
Maritime boundaries: Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan
Regions of Japan
Japan is formally divided into eight regions, from northeast (Hokkaidō) to southwest (Ryukyu Islands):
Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki/Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu (incl. Okinawa).
Administrative divisions 47 prefectures:
- Hokkaidō: 1. Hokkaido
- Tōhoku: 2. Aomori 3. Iwate 4. Miyagi 5. Akita 6. Yamagata 7. Fukushima
- Kantō: 8. Ibaraki 9. Tochigi 10. Gunma 11. Saitama 12. Chiba 13. Tōkyō 14. Kanagawa
- Chūbu: 15. Niigata 16. Toyama 17. Ishikawa 18. Fukui 19. Yamanashi 20. Nagano 21. Gifu 22. Shizuoka 23. Aichi
- Kansai: 24. Mie 25. Shiga 26. Kyōto 27. Ōsaka 28. Hyōgo 29. Nara 30. Wakayama
- Chūgoku: 31. Tottori 32. Shimane 33. Okayama 34. Hiroshima 35. Yamaguchi
- Shikoku: 36. Tokushima 37. Kagawa 38. Ehime 39. Kōchi
- Kyūshū und Okinawa: 40. Fukuoka 41. Saga 42. Nagasaki 43. Kumamoto 44. Ōita 45. Miyazaki 46. Kagoshima 47. Okinawa
Natural resources: Marine life and mineral resources in the territorial waters. Small deposits of coal, oil, iron, and minerals on land.
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