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This is a list of cities in Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the no ...
sorted by prefecture
A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain international ...
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. Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
is ''not'' included on this list, as the City of Tokyo ceased to exist on July 1, 1943. Tokyo now exists as a special metropolis prefecture (都 ''to''), with 23 special wards (with the same status of city) making up the former boundaries of the former city in the eastern half of the prefecture.
Cities
Dissolved cities
Source data
* The area figures are according tGeographical Survey Institute of Japan
as of 2007-10-01. * The source websites of each prefectures' populations are according to :ja:Template:自治体人口/doc.
See also
*Japanese cities by population (1889)
This is the list of Japanese municipalities by population, as of December 31, 1889. The list includes all the cities, as well as other municipalities with more population than Kurume, the least populous city at the time.
:Source: Japanese Wikipe ...
* Municipalities of Japan
Japan has three levels of governments: national, prefectural, and municipal. The nation is divided into 47 prefectures. Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total (January 2013 figures There are four types of munic ...
* List of city nicknames in Japan
* List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population
* List of towns in Japan
* List of villages in Japan
A is a Local government, local administrative unit in Japan.
It is a local public body along with , , and . Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
It is larger than an actual settlement, being in actuality a subd ...
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