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Japan
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にほん • 日本 • にっぽん
Nihon or Nippon
Regions
Hokkaido
Honshu
Tohoku
AkitaAomoriFukushima
IwateMiyagiYamagata
Kanto
ChibaGunmaIbaraki
KanagawaSaitamaTochigi
Tokyo Greater Tokyo Area
Chubu
AichiFukuiGifu
IshikawaNaganoNiigata
ShizuokaToyamaYamanashi
Kansai
HyogoKyotoMie
NaraOsaka
ShigaWakayama
Chugoku
HiroshimaOkayama
ShimaneTottoriYamaguchi
Shikoku
EhimeKagawa
KochiTokushima
Kyushu
FukuokaKagoshima
KumamotoMiyazaki
NagasakiOitaSaga
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
History
Culture

Parent topics

  • Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; one of the world's largest economies; population about 125,000,000. [e]

Subtopics

Prefectures

See also prefectures

  • Okinawa prefecture [r]: (沖縄県 Okinawa-ken) Area of Japan consisting of many southerly islands of the Ryukyu Islands chain, with Okinawa Island the largest; population about 1,300,000. [e]
  • Kagoshima prefecture [r]: (鹿児島県 Kagoshima-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and including some of the southerly Ryukyu Islands; population about 1,700,000. [e]

Islands

  • Okinawa Island [r]: (沖縄本島 Okinawa-hontoo) largest island of Okinawa prefecture in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands chain, with Naha (那覇市 Naha-shi) its capital. [e]

Language

Other related topics

  • Kyushu [r]: (九州 Kyuushuu) third-largest and westernmost of the main islands of Japan, divided into seven regions and including the cities of Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kagoshima; population about 13,000,000. [e]
  • Honshu [r]: (本州 Honshuu) largest of the islands of Japan, divided into five regions and including the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Hiroshima; population about 103,000,000. [e]
  • Hokkaido [r]: (北海道 Hokkaidoo) second-largest and northernmost of the main islands of Japan, including the cities of Sapporo, Hakodate and Asahikawa; population about 5,500,000. [e]
  • Shikoku [r]: (四国) smallest and least populated of the four main islands of Japan, divided into four prefectures and including the cities of Takamatsu, Matsuyama, Tokushima and Uwajima; population about 4,000,000. [e]