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One common division, preferred by the English Wikipedia, groups the prefectures into eight regions. In that division, of the four main islands of Japan, Hokkaidō , Shikoku , and Kyūshū make up one region each, the latter also containing the Satsunan Islands , while the largest island Honshū is divided into five regions.
The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 prefectures (県, ken) proper, two urban prefectures (府, fu, Osaka and Kyōto), one "circuit" (道, dō, Hokkaidō), and one "metropolis" (都, to, Tokyo Metropolis). Although different in name, they are functionally the same.
Tōsandō included Musashi Province after 711. [5] Ōmi. entire Shiga; Mino. southern Gifu; Hida. northern Gifu (around Takayama) Shinano. entire Nagano (northern Nagano without Suwa) Suwa (created in 721 from Shinano, later rejoined back in 731) southern Nagano (Ina (Kamiina and Shimoina) and Suwa Districts) Kōzuke (broke off from Kenu during ...
The Provinces of Japan were replaced with the current prefecture system in the Fuhanken sanchisei during the Meiji Restoration from 1868 to 1871, except for Hokkaido, which was divided into provinces from 1869 to 1882. No order has ever been issued explicitly abolishing the provinces, but they are considered obsolete as administrative units ...
Some other prefectures also have branch offices that carry out prefectural administrative functions outside the capital. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is a merged city-prefecture; a metropolis, it has features of both cities and prefectures. Each prefecture has its own mon for identification, the equivalent of a coat of arms in the West.
For a complete list of not only -fu/-ken, but all -fu/-han/-ken at two points in time, see the List of Japanese prefectures by population#1868 to 1871, it also indicates the (often disjoint) territorial extent of the prefectures and domains in this period by listing the provinces the prefectures/domains extended to and the number of exclaves.
20 prefectures (préfectures) 84 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) 198 communes: 1 autonomous commune (commune autonome): Bangui: 4 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) 8 urban districts (arrondissements) 16 groups (groupements) 205 neighbourhoods (quartiers) 2 communes: Chad: Unitary 23 regions (régions) 67 departments (départements) [ab]
The name "Chiba" was chosen for the prefecture at the time of its creation in 1873 by the Assembly of Prefectural Governors (地方官会議 Chihōkan Kaigi), an early Meiji-period body of prefectural governors that met to decide the structure of local and regional administration in Japan.千葉→thousand leaves, hapa became ba and refers to ...