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The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ordered by height. Mountains over 1000 meters ... Tokyo (Ogasawara Islands) Mount Hiei: 848: 2,782: Kyoto ...
Tokyo, [a] officially the Tokyo Metropolis, [b] is the capital of Japan.With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world.
The extreme points of Japan include the coordinates that are the farthest north, south, east and west in Japan, and the ones that are at the highest and the lowest elevations in the country. Japan's northernmost point is disputed , because Japan considers it to be on Iturup , an island de facto governed by Russia .
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level based on the data published by Central Intelligence Agency, [1] unless another source is cited. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1 .
Japan has a population of 126 million in 2019. [20] It is the 11th most populous country in the world and the second most populous island country. [ 12 ] 81% of the population lives on Honshu, 10% on Kyushu, 4.2% on Hokkaido, 3% on Shikoku, 1.1% in Okinawa Prefecture, and 0.7% on other Japanese islands such as the Nanpō Islands.
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.
Mount Kumotori (雲取山, Kumotori-san) stands at the boundary of Tokyo, Saitama, and Yamanashi Prefectures on the island of Honshū, Japan. With an elevation of 2,017 metres (6,617 ft), [1] its summit is the highest point in Tokyo. It separates the Okutama Mountains and the Okuchichibu Mountains.
Tokyo is the most populated of Japan's 47 prefectures. [1] Mainland Tokyo is divided into two sections: Western Tokyo and the special wards of Tokyo. The prefecture's tallest structures are within the 23 special wards, which comprise the area formerly incorporated as Tokyo City.