Japan
Japan is in Eastern Asia, Asia. Been there? Click it on the globe to add it to your map.
At a glance
- Capital
- Tokyo
- Continent
- Asia · Eastern Asia
- Status
- UN member state
- Population
- 126,264,931
- Area
- 370,098 km²
1.6% of the world’s people, 0.3% of its land
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Regions of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 first-level regions (prefecture, circuit, urban prefecture).
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- Akita
- Aomori
- Chiba
- Ehime
- Fukui
- Fukuoka
- Fukushima
- Gifu
- Gunma
- Hiroshima
- Hokkaidō
- Hyōgo
- Ibaraki
- Ishikawa
- Iwate
- Kagawa
- Kagoshima
- Kanagawa
- Kōchi
- Kumamoto
- Kyōto
- Mie
- Miyagi
- Miyazaki
- Nagano
- Nagasaki
- Nara
- Niigata
- Ōita
- Okayama
- Okinawa
- Ōsaka
- Saga
- Saitama
- Shiga
- Shimane
- Shizuoka
- Tochigi
- Tokushima
- Tokyo
- Tottori
- Toyama
- Wakayama
- Yamagata
- Yamaguchi
- Yamanashi
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Questions about Japan
- What is the capital of Japan?
- The capital of Japan is Tokyo.
- How many regions does Japan have?
- Japan has 47 first-level administrative regions: prefecture, circuit, urban prefecture.
- Is Japan a UN member?
- Yes, Japan is one of the 193 UN member states.
- Which continent is Japan in?
- Japan is in Asia, in the Eastern Asia region.