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In 1868, the Meiji Fuhanken sanchisei administration created the first prefectures (urban fu and rural ken) to replace the urban and rural administrators (bugyō, daikan, etc.) in the parts of the country previously controlled directly by the shogunate and a few territories of rebels/shogunate loyalists who had not submitted to the new ...
Labeled map for listing Prefectures of Japan This page was last edited on 6 December 2024, at 05:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Japan is often divided into regions, each containing one or more of the country's 47 prefectures at large. Sometimes, they are referred to as "blocs" (ブロック, burokku), or "regional blocs" (地域ブロック, chiiki burokku) as opposed to more granular regional divisions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been ...
Administrative divisions of Japan; Ekiden; Japan; List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies; List of capitals in Japan; User:Chickstarr404/Gather lists/13386 – "A Travelers Alphabet" by Stephen Runciman; Template:Japan Regions and Prefectures Labelled Map
47 prefectural entities of Japan. 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.
Population of Japan: 125,950,000 people - 11th most populous country; Area of Japan: 377,873 km 2 (145,898 sq mi) - 62nd largest country; Atlas of Japan; Addressing system in Japan; Historic provinces of Japan; Japan Standard Time
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The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" (都; ... Prefectures of Japan; List of Japanese prefectures by area;