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There are some differences in terminology between Tokyo and other prefectures: police and fire departments are called chō (庁) instead of honbu (本部), for instance. But the only functional difference between Tōkyō-to and other prefectures is that Tokyo administers wards as well as cities.
The name "Chiba" was chosen for the prefecture at the time of its creation in 1873 by the Assembly of Prefectural Governors (地方官会議 Chihōkan Kaigi), an early Meiji-period body of prefectural governors that met to decide the structure of local and regional administration in Japan.千葉→thousand leaves, hapa became ba and refers to ...
Under Japanese law, the prefecture of Tokyo is designated as a to (都), translated as metropolis. [77] Tokyo Prefecture is the most populous prefecture and the densest, with 6,100 inhabitants per square kilometer (16,000/sq mi); by geographic area it is the third-smallest, above only Osaka and Kagawa.
-to (都, lit. "capital"), prefecture-level region name unique to the capital Tōkyō-to-fu (府, lit. "office" or "area"), prefecture-level region (sometimes translated "urban prefecture") named so for historical reasons. There are now only two: Ōsaka-fu and Kyōto-fu. Tokyo-to was also classified as this before being reorganized.
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.
Japanese prefectures by annual population change, in percent (Oct 1, 2021 to Oct 1, 2022). Japanese prefectures by population density (2022). The tan color means between 0 and 99 per km2. This is a list of Japanese prefectures by population. For details of administrative divisions of Japan, see Prefectures of Japan.
In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi (都道府県庁所在地, "seat of a prefectural government", singular: 都庁所在地,tochō shozaichi in the [Tōkyō]-to, 道庁所在地, dōchō shozaichi in the [Hokkai]-dō, 府庁所在地, fuchō shozaichi in -fu, 県庁所在地, kenchō shozaichi in -ken), but the term kento (県都, "prefectural capital ...
Tokyo is not included on this list, as the City of Tokyo ceased to exist on July 1, 1943. Tokyo now exists as a special metropolis prefecture (都 to), with 23 special wards (with the same status of city) making up the former boundaries of the former city in the eastern half of the prefecture.