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Geography of Japan

Map of Japan

Japan is located the east cost of the Asian content.

Japan consists of four large islands and nearly 7,000 small islands.

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Japan's total land area	377,887km²
Hokkaido	83,454km²
Honshu	231,085km²
Shikoku	18,789km²
Kyushu	42,170km²
Okinawa	2,272km²
(Statistics Bureau,National Census on Oct.2002)

Prefectural List

HOKKAIDO

83,453km²

1. Hokkaido

83,453km2

TOHOKU AREA

2. Aomori

9,235km2

5.Yamagata

7,394km2

3. Akita

11,434km2

6.Miyagi

6,861km2

4.Iwate

15,275km2

7.Fukushima

13,782km2

KANTO AREA

1.Tokyo

2,102km2

5.Tochigi

6,408km2

2.Kanagawa

2,415km2

6.Gumma

6,363km2

3.chiba

4,996km2

7.Saitama

3,767km2

4.Ibaragi

6,096km2

CHUBU AREA

1.Niigata

10,939km2

6.Gifu

10,209km2

1a.Sado(isld)

7.Toyama

2,802km2

2.Nagano

12,598km2

8.Ishikawa

4,185km2

3.Yamanashi

4,201km2

9.Fukui

4,189km2

4.Shizuoka

7,329km2

5.Aichi

5,117km2

KINKI AREA

1.Shiga

3,855km2

5.wakayama

4,726km2

2.Mie

5,761km2

6.Hyogo

8,392km2

3.kyoto

4,613km2

6a.Awagi(isld)

4.Nara

3,691km2

7.Osaka

1,893km2

CHUGOKU AREA

1.Tottori

4.Shimane

2.Okayama

5.Yamaguchi

3.Hiroshima

SHIKOKU AREA

18,788km2

1.Tokushima

3.Kagawa

2.Kouchi

4.Ehime

KYUSHU AREA

42,165km2

1.Oita

5b.Tsushima

2.Miyazaki

6.Kumamoto

3.Fukuoka

7.Kagoshima

4.Saga

7a.Oshumi shoto islands

5.Nagasaki

7b.Amami shoto islands

5a.Goto retto islands

OKINAWA

2,271 km2

1.Okinawa

2.Sakishima shoto islands

(including Iriomote, Ishigaki islands)

(Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center, 2000)