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The Japanese government also considered a plan to merge several groups of prefectures, creating a subnational administrative division system consisting of between nine and 13 states, and giving these states more local autonomy than the prefectures currently enjoy. [4]
ISO 3166-2:JP is the entry for Japan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Currently for Japan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 47 ...
A city designated by government ordinance (政令指定都市, seirei shitei toshi), also known as a designated city (指定都市, shitei toshi) or government ordinance city (政令市, seirei shi), is a Japanese city that has a population greater than 500,000 and has been designated as such by an order of the cabinet of Japan under Article ...
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. Hokkaidō (the island and its archipelago) Honshū. Tōhoku region (northern part) Kantō region (eastern part) Nanpō Islands (part of Tokyo Metropolis) Chūbu region ...
After exploration, Takeshiro Matsuura chose the name, and in 1869, the northern Japanese island became known as Hokkaido. Hyōgo: 兵庫県: Hyōgo-ken (兵庫県) – This was the location of the government arsenal, in Japanese shako, changed to kyo no ko, and finally to Hyogo (兵庫)→military-storehouse. Ibaraki: 茨城県
The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" (都; To), Tokyo; one "circuit" (道; Dō), Hokkaidō; two urban prefectures (府; Fu), Osaka and Kyoto; and 43 other prefectures (県; Ken). In Japanese, they are commonly referred to collectively as Todōfuken (都道府県).
Country name: English short name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA) Subdivisions assigned codes : Number and category of subdivisions assigned codes in ISO 3166-2; [ 1 ] if there are more than one level of subdivisions, the first-level subdivisions are shown in italics
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