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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 ...
But the practice of ordering prefectures based on their geographic region is traditional. [1] This ordering is mirrored in Japan's International Organization for Standardization (ISO) coding. [14] From north to south (numbering in ISO 3166-2:JP order), the prefectures of Japan and their commonly associated regions are:
Airports in Japan by region (3 C) Fictional Japanese people by region (8 C) C. Categories by locality in Japan (5 C) Chūbu region (17 C, 29 P) Chūgoku region (10 C ...
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.
Figures here are according to the official estimates of Japan. [1] Ranks are given by estimated areas. Undetermined areas here account for domestic boundary regions either in uncertainty or disputed among Japanese prefectures.
Japan lies at the convergence of three terrestrial realms, the Palearctic, Indomalaya, and Oceania, and its flora and fauna combine elements from all three.The ecoregions that cover the main islands of Japan, Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, and Shikoku, along with the nearby islands, are considered part of the Palearctic realm.
Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 islands are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List
Provinces of Japan in 701–702 during the Asuka period.The northern half of the modern Tōhoku region of Honshu is unorganized.. The provinces were originally established by the Ritsuryō reforms as both administrative units and geographic regions.