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There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns, villages and special wards of Tokyo (ku). In Japanese, this system is known as shikuchōson (市区町村), where each kanji in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. Some designated cities also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards.
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The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) defines a metropolitan area as one or more central cities and its associated outlying municipalities. To qualify as an outlying municipality, the municipality must have at least 1.5% of its resident population aged 15 and above commuting to school or work into one of the central cities.
A map of Japan's major cities, main towns and selected smaller centers. Japan has a population of 126.3 million in 2019. [20] It is the eleventh-most populous country and the second-most populous island country in the world. [12] The population is clustered in urban areas along the coast, plains, and valleys. [15] In 2010, 90.7% of the total ...
Prefectures of Japan. Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (都道府県, todōfuken, [todoːɸɯ̥ꜜkeɴ] ⓘ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (県, ken), two urban prefectures (府, fu: Osaka and Kyoto ...
Blank maps derived from OMC. A web interface by Martin Weinelt – It generates maps using GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools), from public domain vector data. The resulting maps should be in the public domain. These maps show elevation and main rivers, but no modern boundaries.
This map is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cleaned up from original image, result: blank map of Japan. The original can be viewed here: Map of Japan with highlight on 40 Fukuoka prefecture.svg: . Modifications made by Erida539.
Administrative divisionsof 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). Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of ...