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This is a list of
Geographical 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.
This is a list of cities
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in Japan
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sorted by prefecture
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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
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. Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.46 ...
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
are a special form of municipalities in Japan under the 1947 Local Autonomy Law. They are city-level wards: primary subdivisions of a prefecture with municipal autonomy largely comparable to other forms of municipalities.
Although the autono ...
(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) *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 munici ...
* List of city nicknames in Japan
* List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population
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* List of towns in Japan
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* List of villages in Japan
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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 subdivision of a rural ...
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