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Japan is an island country located off the eastern coast of Asia. It is made up of over 6,800 islands stretching over 3,000 km from northeast to southwest. The five main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Okinawa make up 97% of Japan's total land area of 377,975 sq km. Japan has a population of over 126 million people and is divided into 47 prefectures and 8 traditional regions, with around three-fourths of its terrain being mountainous.

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Japan is an island country located off the eastern coast of Asia. It is made up of over 6,800 islands stretching over 3,000 km from northeast to southwest. The five main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Okinawa make up 97% of Japan's total land area of 377,975 sq km. Japan has a population of over 126 million people and is divided into 47 prefectures and 8 traditional regions, with around three-fourths of its terrain being mountainous.

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"Nippon" redirects here. For other uses, see Japan (disambiguation) and Nippon
(disambiguation).

Japan

 日本国 (Japanese)
 Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku

Flag

Imperial Seal

Anthem: "Kimigayo" (君が代)
(English: "His Imperial Majesty's Reign")[1]

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Government Seal of Japan

5-7 Paulownia (五七桐, go-shichi kiri)

Japanese territory in dark green; claimed but uncontrolled


territory in light green

Capital Tokyo
and largest city

National language Japanese

97.8% Japanese[a]
Ethnic groups 0.6% Chinese
(2019)[2] 0.4% Korean
1.2% other

Demonym(s) Japanese

Unitary parliamentary constitutional


Government
monarchy

• Emperor Naruhito

• Prime Minister Shinzō Abe

Legislature National Diet

• Upper house House of Councillors

• Lower house House of Representatives

Formation

• National Foundation
February 11, 660 BC
Day

• Meiji Constitution November 29, 1890

• Current constitution May 3, 1947

• Treaty of San
April 28, 1952
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Area

377,975 km2 (145,937 sq mi)[3]
• Total
(61st)

Population

• 2019 estimate 126,150,000[4] (11th)

• 2015 census 127,094,745[5]

• Density 334/km2 (865.1/sq mi) (24th)

GDP (PPP) 2020 estimate

• Total $5.888 trillion[6] (4th)

• Per capita $46,827 (28th)

GDP (nominal) 2020 estimate

• Total $5.413 trillion[6] (3rd)


• Per capita $43,043 (22nd)

33.9[7]
Gini (2015)
medium · 78th

 0.915[8]
HDI (2018)
very high · 19th

Currency Japanese yen (¥) (JPY)

Time zone UTC+09:00 (JST)

Driving side left

Calling code +81

ISO 3166 code JP

Internet TLD .jp

Japan

Japanese name

Kanji 日本国

Hiragana にっぽんこく
にほんこく

Katakana ニッポンコク
ニホンコク

Japan (/dʒəˈpæn/; Japanese: 日本, Nippon [ɲippoꜜɴ] ( listen) or Nihon [ɲihoꜜɴ] ( listen))[b] is an
island country located off the eastern coast of the Asian continent. It is bordered by the Sea of
Japan to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east, and extends more than 3,000 kilometers
(1,900 miles) from the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast to the East China Sea in the southwest.
Part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan encompasses a stratovolcanic archipelago of 6,852 islands;
five main islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Okinawa) comprise 97% of the
country's total area of 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi) and more than 99% of its
population.

Japan is officially divided into 47 prefectures and traditionally into eight regions. About three-
fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, with much of the remainder made up by low-
lying coastal plains.

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