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| [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidō]] || 5.4 million<ref>[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/regions/q2.html What special characteristics does Hokkaido have?] from Kids Web Japan</ref> || 83,000 || [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidō]]
| [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidō]] || 5.4 million<ref>[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/regions/q2.html What special characteristics does Hokkaido have?] from Kids Web Japan</ref> || 83,000 || [[Hokkaido|Hokkaidō]]
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| [[Tōhoku region|Tōhoku]] || 8.91 million<ref>[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/regions/q3.html What special characteristics does the Tohoku region have?] from Kids Web Japan</ref> || 67,000 || [[Akita Prefecture|Akita]], [[Aomori Prefecture|Aomori]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]], [[Iwate Prefecture|Iwate]], [[Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi]], [[Yamagata Prefecture|Yamagata]]
| [[Tōhoku region|Tōhoku]] || 8.9 million<ref>[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/regions/q3.html What special characteristics does the Tohoku region have?] from Kids Web Japan</ref> || 67,000 || [[Akita Prefecture|Akita]], [[Aomori Prefecture|Aomori]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]], [[Iwate Prefecture|Iwate]], [[Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi]], [[Yamagata Prefecture|Yamagata]]
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| [[Kantō region|Kantō]] || 43.3 million<ref>[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/regions/q4.html What special characteristics does the Kanto region have?] from Kids Web Japan</ref> || 32,000 || [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]], [[Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Saitama Prefecture|Saitama]], [[Tochigi Prefecture|Tochigi]], [[Tokyo|Tōkyō]]
| [[Kantō region|Kantō]] || 43.3 million<ref>[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/regions/q4.html What special characteristics does the Kanto region have?] from Kids Web Japan</ref> || 32,000 || [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]], [[Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Saitama Prefecture|Saitama]], [[Tochigi Prefecture|Tochigi]], [[Tokyo|Tōkyō]]

Revision as of 06:31, 27 March 2021

Map of the regions of Japan. From northeast to southwest: Hokkaidō (red), Tōhoku (yellow), Kantō (green), Chūbu (cyan), Kansai (blue), Chūgoku (orange), Shikoku (purple) and Kyūshū & Okinawa (grey).
Administrative divisions
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Japan is divided into eight regions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been used by government officials for statistical and other purposes since 1905. They are widely used in, for example, maps, geography textbooks, and weather reports, and many businesses and institutions use their home regions in their names, for example Kinki Nippon Railway, List of u Bank, and Tōhoku University.

Each region contains one or more of the country's 47 prefectures. Of the four main islands of Japan, Hokkaidō, Shikoku, and Kyūshū make up one region each, the latter also containing the Ryukyu Islands, while the largest island Honshū is divided into five regions. Okinawa Prefecture is usually included in Kyūshū, but is sometimes treated as its own ninth region.[1][2][3]

Japan has eight High Courts, but their jurisdictions do not correspond to the eight regions (see Judicial system of Japan for details).

Table

Region Population Area in km²[4] Prefectures contained
Hokkaidō 5.4 million[5] 83,000 Hokkaidō
Tōhoku 8.9 million[6] 67,000 Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata
Kantō 43.3 million[7] 32,000 Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, Tochigi, Tōkyō
Chūbu 21.4 million[8] 67,000 Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano,
Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, Yamanashi
Kansai (also known as Kinki) 22.5 million[9] 33,000 Hyōgo, Kyōto, Mie, Nara, Ōsaka, Shiga, Wakayama
Chūgoku 7.3 million[10] 32,000 Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, Yamaguchi
Shikoku 3.8 million[11] 19,000 Ehime, Kagawa, Kōchi, Tokushima
Kyūshū 14.5 million[12] 44,000 Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Kumamoto,
Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Ōita, Okinawa, Saga

Regions and islands

This is a list of Japan's major islands, traditional regions, and subregions, going from northeast to southwest.[13][14] The eight traditional regions are marked in bold.

See also

References

  1. ^ Regions
  2. ^ Regions of Japan
  3. ^ A Guide to the Regions of Japan
  4. ^ Japan's Regional Megamarkets - Semantic Scholar (PDF)
  5. ^ What special characteristics does Hokkaido have? from Kids Web Japan
  6. ^ What special characteristics does the Tohoku region have? from Kids Web Japan
  7. ^ What special characteristics does the Kanto region have? from Kids Web Japan
  8. ^ What special characteristics does the Chubu region have? from Kids Web Japan
  9. ^ What special characteristics does the Kinki region have? from Kids Web Japan
  10. ^ What special characteristics does the Chugoku region have? from Kids Web Japan
  11. ^ What special characteristics does the Shikoku region have? from Kids Web Japan
  12. ^ What special characteristics does the Kyushu-Okinawa region have? from Kids Web Japan
  13. ^ Regions of Japan on japan-guide.com
  14. ^ Regions of Japan on web-japan.org

External links

Media related to Regions of Japan at Wikimedia Commons

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