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They settled on five themes: location, place, relationships within places (later changed to human-environment interaction), relationships between places (later shortened to movement), and region. [4] The themes were not a "new geography" but rather a conceptual structure for organizing information about geography. [1]
This is a list of Japan's major islands, traditional regions, and subregions, going from northeast to southwest. [13] [14] The eight traditional regions are marked in bold. Hokkaidō (the island and its archipelago) Honshū. Tōhoku region (northern part) Kantō region (eastern part) Nanpō Islands (part of Tokyo Metropolis) Chūbu region ...
The Tōsandō is a region which straddles the central mountains of northern Honshū. [5] The descriptive name also refers to a series of roads connecting the provincial capitals. [4] Tōsandō included Musashi Province after 711. [5] Ōmi. entire Shiga; Mino. southern Gifu; Hida. northern Gifu (around Takayama) Shinano. entire Nagano (northern ...
Geography of the Chubu region (3 C) Geography of the Chūgoku region (12 C) H. Geography of Hokkaido (8 C, 10 P) K. ... Category: Geography of Japan by region.
The regions are not official administrative units but have been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts. For example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions; weather reports usually give the weather by region; and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of ...
Japan is informally divided into eight regions. Most regions contains several prefectures (the exception being Hokkaidō) for a total of 47. Within these prefectures, there exist many local administrative units that are categorized into designated cities (17), core cities (37), special cities (44), cities , towns and villages depending on the ...
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But the practice of ordering prefectures based on their geographic region is traditional. [1] This ordering is mirrored in Japan's International Organization for Standardization (ISO) coding. [14] From north to south (numbering in ISO 3166-2:JP order), the prefectures of Japan and their commonly associated regions are: