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In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi ... Fukushima Metropolitan Area: 412,353 3. Fukushima: 294,724
This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities.
Source: Extraordinary Census of Japan (as of October 1, 1947), Population Census of Japan (as of April 26, 1946, November 1, 1945 and February 22, 1944), Census of Japan (as of October 1 for the years of 1940, 1935, 1930, 1925 and 1920).
The least-populated city, Utashinai, Hokkaidō, has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaidō, has nearly forty thousand residents, and the country's largest village Yomitan, Okinawa has a population of 40,517. The capital city, Tokyo, no longer has city status.
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A city (市, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan with a population of at least 50,000 of which at least 60% of households must be established in a central urban area, and at least 60% of households must be employed in commerce, industry or other urban occupations.
Tokyo, Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis (都, to). [3] The 23 special wards of Tokyo, which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated ...
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