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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.
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 in the mid-1920s.
Hamamatsu also became a designated city in 2007. As its outlying areas overlap with Shizuoka, the two cities formed a single major metropolitan area in the 2010 census. Utsunomiya metropolitan area Utsunomiya qualified as a central city for the 2010 census, resulting from mergers with neighboring municipalities and subsequent population growth.
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Nagoya (名古屋市, Nagoya-shi, ⓘ) is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3 million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11 million. [3]
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 ) .
UNICEF defines city proper as, "the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city or controlled directly from the city by a single authority." A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognised urban status that is usually characterised by some form of local ...
The following list sorts all cities (including towns and villages) in the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo with a population of more than 5,000 according to the 2020 Census. As of October 1, 2020, 31 places fulfill this criterion and are listed here.