Japan
Japan is in Eastern Asia, with its capital at Tokyo and an area of about 377,930 km². Explore its flag, anthem, population, GDP ranking, government, natural resources, provinces and major cities on an interactive 3D globe.
- Official name
- Japan
- Capital
- Tokyo
- Region
- Asia · Eastern Asia
- Area
- 377,930 km²
- Languages
- Japanese
- Currencies
- Japanese yen (JPY)
- Government
- Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Natural resources
- negligible mineral resources, fish
- Industries
- motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods
- Main exports
- cars, integrated circuits, machinery, vehicle parts/accessories, construction vehicles
First-level divisions (47)
- Gunma Prefecture
- Kagoshima Prefecture
- Nagasaki Prefecture
- Okinawa Prefecture
- Aichi Prefecture
- Akita Prefecture
- Aomori Prefecture
- Chiba Prefecture
- Ehime Prefecture
- Fukui Prefecture
- Fukushima Prefecture
- Hokkaidō
- Hyōgo Prefecture
- Ibaraki Prefecture
- Ishikawa Prefecture
- Iwate Prefecture
- Kagawa Prefecture
- Kanagawa Prefecture
- Kōchi Prefecture
- Kumamoto Prefecture
- Mie Prefecture
- Miyagi Prefecture
- Miyazaki Prefecture
- Nagano Prefecture
- Nara Prefecture
- Niigata Prefecture
- Okayama Prefecture
- Saga Prefecture
- Saitama Prefecture
- Shiga Prefecture
- Shimane Prefecture
- Shizuoka Prefecture
- Tochigi Prefecture
- Tokushima Prefecture
- Tottori Prefecture
- Toyama Prefecture
- Wakayama Prefecture
- Yamagata Prefecture
- Yamaguchi Prefecture
- Yamanashi Prefecture
- Fukuoka Prefecture
- Gifu Prefecture
- Hiroshima Prefecture
- Kyōto Prefecture
- Ōita Prefecture
- Ōsaka Prefecture
- Tokyo
Major cities
- Tokyo (population 35,676,000)
- Osaka (population 11,294,000)
- Yokohama (population 3,697,894)
- Nagoya (population 3,230,000)
- Fukuoka (population 2,792,000)
- Sapporo (population 2,544,000)
- Sendai (population 2,250,000)
- Hiroshima (population 2,045,000)
- Kyoto (population 1,805,000)
- Kōbe (population 1,528,478)
- Kawasaki (population 1,437,266)
- Kitakyūshū (population 997,536)
- Hamamatsu (population 977,023)
- Naha (population 905,238)
- Okayama (population 866,092)