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Tokyo, [a] officially the Tokyo Metropolis, [b] is the capital of Japan. With a population of over 14 million residents within the city proper as of 2023, it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world.
Tokyo Tokyo Hachiōji Machida Fuchū. The following table lists the 61 cities, towns, villages and special wards in Tokyo, according to the 2020 Census. The table also gives an overview of the evolution of the population since the 1995 census. [1] Officially, there has been no single Tokyo municipality since 1943.
With a population of over 14 million residents within the city proper as of 2023, it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents as of 2024.
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
High population density; 329.5 people per square kilometer for total area; 1,523 persons per square kilometer for habitable land. More than 50% of the population lives on 2% of the land. (July 1993). [10] According to research in 2009, the population to land density ratio has gradually increased, now at 127 million per 337 km2.
Japan is facing a population crisis—so Tokyo, its largest city, will try to solve the problem with something new: a four-day workweek. Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government, one ...
Tighter definitions for Greater Tokyo do not include adjacent metropolitan areas of Numazu-Mishima (approx. 450,000) to the southwest, Maebashi-Takasaki-Ōta-Ashikaga (approx. 1,500,000 people) on the northwest, and Greater Utsunomiya (approx. 1,000,000) to the north. If they are included, Greater Tokyo's population would be around 39 million.
The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022). [244] It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the biggest metropolitan area in the world with 37.4 million people (2024). [245] Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, [246] with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. [247]