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Prefectures of Japan ranked by area as of 2022

Figures here are according to the official estimates of
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 n ...
. Ranks are given by estimated areas. Undetermined areas here account for domestic boundary regions either in uncertainty or disputed among Japanese prefectures.


Prefectures of Japan ranked by area as of January 1, 1883

population for January 1, 1883 was calculated based on information of . Areas were calculated based on maps drawn by Inō Tadataka.According to the ''2nd Statistical Yearbook of the Empire of Japan'' (1883). Ranks are given by estimated areas.


See also

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List of Japanese prefectures by GDP This is a list of Prefectures of Japan, Japanese prefectures by GDP. Methodology The article lists the Gross domestic product, GDP of Japanese prefectures in main fiscal years, where all figures are obtained from the . Calculating GDP of Japanes ...
* List of Japanese prefectures by population *
ISO 3166-2 codes for Japan ISO 3166-2:JP is the entry for Japan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of a ...
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Government of Japan The Government of Japan consists of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and is based on popular sovereignty. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan, adopted in 1947. It is a unitary state ...
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Prefectures of Japan Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, ''todōfuken'', ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (, '' ken''), tw ...


External links


Geographical Survey Institute of Japan



References and notes

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Area Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an op ...
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