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This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. 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.
Cities of Japan. 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).
Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan.
Japan has 13 cities with more than a million people, 191 cities with between 100,000 and 1 million people, and 540 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people. The largest city in Japan is Tokyo, with a population of 8,336,599 people.
21 sie 2019 · Osaka is the third-largest city in Japan. Formerly a famous city at the center of the rice trade, Osaka today is known for being a vibrant city. Osaka is well-connected to other places in Japan by rail, and to other international cities by ferry.
8 sie 2024 · According to a demographic survey published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, based on resident registration data, Japan’s three cities with the largest populations as of...
Japan: Prefectures and Major Cities with population statistics, maps, charts, weather and web information.
