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1. 1. Tokyo. Tokyo. 595,905. Formerly known as Edo, whose population is estimated to be over a million under the Tokugawa, but after the Meiji Restoration, roughly half the city's population emigrated. Nevertheless, Tokyo retained its position as Japan's largest city, which it had held since the mid 17th century. 2.
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
Tokyo (/ ˈtoʊkioʊ /; [8] Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ⓘ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world. [9] The Greater Tokyo Area ...
The total population had declined by 0.8 percent from the time of the census five years previously, the first time it had declined since the 1945 census. [ 5 ] Since 2010, Japan has experienced net population loss due to falling birth rates and minimal immigration , despite having one of the highest life expectancies in the world, at 85.00 ...
US$ 2.084 trillion (2020) (40% of Japan's GDP) The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tochigi) as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region.
List. Tokyo. Tokyo. Hachiōji. Machida. Fuchū. The following table lists the 61 cities, towns, villages and special wards in Tokyo, according to the 2020 Census. The table also gives an overview of the evolution of the population since the 1995 census. [1] Officially, there has been no single Tokyo municipality since 1943.
The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022). [243] It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area , the biggest metropolitan area in the world with 38,140,000 people (2016). [ 244 ] Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society , [ 245 ] with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. [ 246 ]
English: This is a graph showing the population growth over time of three common regions associated with Tokyo, Japan: 1) Tokyo-to, the official borders of the "Tokyo Metropolis" 2) Greater Tokyo, which is Tokyo-to plus Kanagawa-ken, Saitama-ken, and Chiba-ken 3) The Tokyo "ku-area", which is the historical 23-ku area in the center of Tokyo (before 1947 the number of ku varied)