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Honshu is roughly 1,300 km (810 mi) long and ranges from 50 to 230 km (31 to 143 mi) wide, and the total area is 225,800 km 2 (87,200 sq mi). It is the 7th largest island in the world. [ 117 ] This makes it slightly larger than the island of Great Britain (209,331 km 2 (80,823 sq mi)).
Figures here are according to the official estimates of Japan. [1] Ranks are given by estimated areas. Undetermined areas here account for domestic boundary regions either in uncertainty or disputed among Japanese prefectures.
Chūkyō (中京圏, Chūkyō-ken), or the Chūkyō region (中京地方, Chūkyō-chihō), is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region.
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on road network density and the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
The initial development of roads in Japan can be traced back to the Jōmon period. The remains of a man-made road were uncovered at the Sannai-Maruyama Site that was occupied between 3900 – 2200 BC. [11] [12] Archaeologists uncovered a 12-meter-wide (39 ft) and 420-meter-long (1,380 ft) road at the site that linked the ancient settlement to ...
Keihanshin (京阪神, "Kyoto–Osaka–Kobe") is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. The entire region has a population (as of 2015) of 19,302,746 over an area of 13,228 km 2 (5,107 sq mi). [3]
The Japanese government translates Tōkyō-to (東京都, [toːkʲoꜜːto]) as "Tokyo Metropolis" in almost all cases, and the government is officially called the "Tokyo Metropolitan Government". Following the capitulation of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, Tōkyō-fu (an urban prefecture like Kyoto and Osaka) was set up and encompassed the ...
About 75% of Japan is mountainous, with a mountain range running through each of the main islands. Japan's highest mountain is Mount Fuji , with an elevation of 3776 m (12,388 ft). As Japan is situated in a volcanic zone along the Pacific deeps, frequent low-intensity earth tremors and occasional volcanic activity are felt throughout the islands.