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  2. List of islands of Japan - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a survey conducted by the Japan Coast Guard in 1987, the number of islands in Japan was 6,852. At that time, the survey only ...

  3. List of islands by population - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.

  4. Honshu - Wikipedia

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    Honshu has a total population of 104 million people, according to a 2017 estimate, 81.3% of the entire population of Japan. [11] The largest city is Tokyo (population: 13,988,129), [ 20 ] the capital of Japan and part of the Greater Tokyo Area , the most populous metropolitan area in the world.

  5. List of islands of Japan by area - Wikipedia

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    Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 islands are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List

  6. Geography of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan has a population of 126 million in 2019. [20] It is the 11th most populous country in the world and the second most populous island country. [12] 81% of the population lives on Honshu, 10% on Kyushu, 4.2% on Hokkaido, 3% on Shikoku, 1.1% in Okinawa Prefecture, and 0.7% on other Japanese islands such as the Nanpō Islands.

  7. List of countries by number of islands - Wikipedia

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    Slightly more than 8,000 islands had some form of buildings in 2013, most uninhabited. More than 1.6 million (17% of population) people lived on an island in 2013. This figure is high because there are densely populated islands in the larger cities of Sweden. List [60] Scotland See United Kingdom. 900 118 More than 900 islands, of which 118 are ...

  8. List of regions of Japan - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Japan's major islands, traditional regions, and subregions, going from northeast to southwest. [13] [14] The eight traditional regions are marked in bold. Hokkaidō (the island and its archipelago) Honshū. Tōhoku region (northern part) Kantō region (eastern part) Nanpō Islands (part of Tokyo Metropolis) Chūbu region ...

  9. Okinawa Island - Wikipedia

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    It is the smallest and least populated of the five main islands of Japan. [6] The island is approximately 106 kilometres (66 mi) long, an average 11 kilometres (7 mi) wide, [7] and has an area of 1,206.98 square kilometers (466.02 sq mi). It is roughly 640 kilometres (350 nmi; 400 mi) south of the main island of Kyushu and the rest of Japan.