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  2. Geography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Nearly one-fourth of Japan's arable land and 22% of Japan's forests are in Hokkaido. [30] Another important plain is the Sendai Plain around the city of Sendai in northeastern Honshū. [27] Many of these plains are along the coast, and their areas have been increased by land reclamation throughout recorded history. [27]

  3. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The most striking feature of Japanese agriculture is the shortage of farmland due to Japan's distinctive geography and geology. The 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi) under cultivation constituted just 13.2% of the total land area in 1988. However, the land is intensively cultivated.

  4. List of countries by arable land density - Wikipedia

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    Arable density (m² per capita) by country. This is a list of countries ordered by physiological density."Arable land" is defined by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, the source of "Arable land (hectares per person)" as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land ...

  5. Japan - Wikipedia

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    Only 11.5% of Japan's land is suitable for cultivation. [187] Because of this lack of arable land, a system of terraces is used to farm in small areas. [ 188 ] This results in one of the world's highest levels of crop yields per unit area, with an agricultural self-sufficiency rate of about 50% as of 2018 [update] . [ 189 ]

  6. Arable land - Wikipedia

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    In Britain, arable land has traditionally been contrasted with pasturable land such as heaths, which could be used for sheep-rearing but not as farmland. Arable land is vulnerable to land degradation and some types of un-arable land can be enriched to create useful land. Climate change and biodiversity loss, are driving pressure on arable land. [5]

  7. Land use statistics by country - Wikipedia

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    Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...

  8. List of regions of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...

  9. Mainland Japan - Wikipedia

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    "Mainland Japan" (内地, naichi, lit. "inner lands") is a term used to distinguish Japan's core land area from its outlying territories. It is most commonly used to distinguish the country's four largest islands (Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū, and Shikokū) from smaller islands such as the Bonin Islands and the Ryukyu Islands.