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Sapporo is the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture. As of July 31, 2023, the city has a population of 1,959,750, making it the largest city in Hokkaido and the largest north of Tokyo. It ranks as the fifth most populous city in Japan and is Hokkaido's cultural, economic, and political center.
The population figures given therefore refer to the city or municipality in the political-administrative sense. ... 2024 [36] Sovereign state ... Sapporo Japan ...
Major cities include Sapporo and Asahikawa in the central region, and the port of Hakodate facing Honshu in the south. Sapporo is HokkaidÅ's largest city and the fifth-largest in Japan. It had a population of 1,959,750 as of 31 July 2023 and a population density of 1,748/km 2 (4,530/sq mi).
Japanese prefectures by annual population change, in percent (Oct 1, 2021 to Oct 1, 2022). Japanese prefectures by population density (2022). The tan color means between 0 and 99 per km2. This is a list of Japanese prefectures by population. For details of administrative divisions of Japan, see Prefectures of Japan.
Population % Change: Notes: 1: 3: Osaka: Osaka: 2,453,973 + 95.85%: Osaka merged with more surrounding municipalities in 1925, bringing the city to roughly its current size. The second Japanese city to pass 2 million people, and the new most populous city in Japan. 2: 1: Tokyo: Tokyo: 2,070,913 - 4.71%: Population briefly dipped below 2 million ...
All first level administrative units with more than five million inhabitants at the last ascertainable date. Also indicated are the administrative center (capital city), the type of administrative unit, the country to which the administrative unit belongs, the land area and the population density per square kilometer of land area.
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.
Sapporo Asahikawa Hakodate Kushiro Tomakomai Otaru. The following table lists the 55 cities, towns and villages in Hokkaido with a population of at least 10,000 on October 1, 2020, according to the 2020 Census. The table also gives an overview of the evolution of the population since the 1995 census. [1]