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Chiba Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast to the east of Tokyo, and is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Chiba Prefecture largely consists of the Bōsō Peninsula, which encloses the eastern side of Tokyo Bay and separates it from Kanagawa Prefecture.
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Chiba (千葉市, Chiba-shi, pronounced) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of the centre of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. [1] The city became a government-designated city in 1992. In June 2019, its population was 979,768, with a population density of 3,605 people per km 2. The city has an area of 271 ...
Under a set of 1888–1890 laws on local government [2] until the 1920s, each prefecture (then only 3 -fu and 42 -ken; Hokkaidō and Okinawa-ken were subject to different laws until the 20th century) was subdivided into cities (市, shi) and districts (郡, gun) and each district into towns (町, chō/machi) and villages (村, son/mura).
Module:Location map/data/Japan Chiba Prefecture is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Chiba Prefecture. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
In that division, of the four main islands of Japan, Hokkaidō, Shikoku, and Kyūshū make up one region each, the latter also containing the Satsunan Islands, while the largest island Honshū is divided into five regions. Okinawa Prefecture is usually included in Kyūshū, but is sometimes treated as its own ninth region. [1] [2] [3]
Dissolved municipalities of Chiba Prefecture (31 P) L. Landforms of Chiba Prefecture (3 C, 17 P) P. Parks and gardens in Chiba Prefecture (1 C, 13 P)
The following list sorts all municipalities (cities, towns and villages) in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba with a population of more than 10,000 according to the 2020 Census. As of October 1, 2020, 46 places fulfill this criterion and are listed here.