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  2. List of cities in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities. Tokyo is not included on this list, as the City of Tokyo ceased to exist on July 1, 1943.

  3. Cities of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Administrative divisionsof Japan. A city (市, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as towns (町, machi) and villages (村, mura), with the difference that they are not a component of districts (郡, gun). Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of ...

  4. List of metropolitan areas in Japan - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of metropolitan areas (都市圏, toshiken) in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo. The region containing most of the people in Japan between Tokyo and Fukuoka is often called the Taiheiyō Belt.

  5. List of towns in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan. A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city (shi), and village (mura). Geographically, a town is contained within a district. The same word (町; machi or chō) is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a ...

  6. Greater Tokyo Area - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tochigi) as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region. In Japanese, it is referred to by various terms ...

  7. List of metropolitan areas in Asia - Wikipedia

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    List of metropolitan areas in Asia. Asia is one of the world's fastest-growing continents, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Tokyo, in Japan, is the world's largest metropolitan area by population. The populations of the given cities are obtained from five sources: Cities. World Atlas. National Official Estimate ...

  8. Municipalities of Japan - Wikipedia

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    See List of cities in Japan for a complete list of cities. See also: Core cities of Japan. The following are examples of the 20 designated cities: Fukuoka, the most populous city in the Kyūshū region; Hiroshima, the busy manufacturing city in the Chūgoku region of Honshū; Kobe, a major port on the Inland Sea, located in the center of ...

  9. List of capitals in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Capitals that are not the largest city/metropolitan area in their prefecture. Those in italics are prefectural capitals, or metropolitan areas of them. Fukushima Prefecture. 1. Iwaki. 348,322. 1. Kōriyama Metropolitan Area. 537,493.