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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)).
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on 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 ...
Number Origin Terminus Length (km) Vehicles only (popular name) National Route 1: Chūō, Tokyo [1]: Kita-ku, Osaka: 566.4: National Route 2: Kita-ku, Osaka: Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū
Highways numbered since that time have had three-digit numbers, so the numbers 58–100, which had so far been unused, remained unused. However, when Okinawa Prefecture reverted to Japanese control in 1972, Route 58, with its southern endpoint in Okinawa's capital city of Naha, was established. The numbers from 59 to 100 remain unused.
Japanese Estimated Area (km 2) [2] Determined Area (km 2) [3] Undetermined Area (km 2) [4] Population Density (/km 2) Inhabitable Area [citation needed] Forest
Had a railway line from 1883 until 1931 (11 km) and a three line tramway network from 1905 until 1929 (circa 14 km) 470 Micronesia: 583 Nicaragua: Suspended in September 2001 558 Oman: Proposals as part of Gulf Railway. Has a short tourist line at the Al Hoota Cave. 512 Palau: Had an industrial line. Has a short tourist monorail (of small gauge)
[87] [88] Honshu has the highest population density at 450 persons/km 2 (1200/sq mi) as of 2010, while Hokkaido has the lowest density of 64.5 persons/km 2 as of 2016. [89] As of 2014, approximately 0.5% of Japan's total area is reclaimed land (umetatechi). [90] Lake Biwa is an ancient lake and the country's largest freshwater lake. [91]