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Map of the regions of Japan as preferred by the English Wikipedia ... Region Population ... 1945 seat of the Chūgoku governorate-general in Hiroshima City, ...
Distribution of population [25] by regions (blue shades) and prefectures (red: most populous; green: less). KANTO, KEIHANSHIN and TOKAI are three largest metropolitan areas which have about 2/3 of total population of Japan. Out of 47 prefectures, 13 are red and 34 are green. The population of Japan has been decreasing since 2011.
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.
Population in the following tables is given according to the A-type de facto population concept for enumerating the people, based on koseki registration systems. Source: Imperial Japan Static Population Statistics (as of December 31 for the years of 1918, 1913, 1908 and 1903), Imperial Japan Population Statistics (as of December 31, 1898),
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.
A map of Japan's major cities, main towns and selected smaller centers. Japan has a population of 126.3 million in 2019. [20] It is the eleventh-most populous country and the second-most populous island country in the world. [12] The population is clustered in urban areas along the coast, plains, and valleys. [15]
The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022). [244] It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area , the biggest metropolitan area in the world with 37.4 million people (2024). [ 245 ] Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society , [ 246 ] with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. [ 247 ]
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 ...