Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin", and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun".

Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. The population of 126 million is the world's tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98.5% of Japan's total population. Approximately 9.1 million people live in the core city of Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, which is the sixth largest city proper in the OECD and the fourth leading global city in the world  The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the world's largest metropolitan area with over 35 million residents and the world's largest urban agglomeration economy.



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Capital City:                  Tokio ( Largest city also )
Officia Language         Japanese

There are many regional language : 

  • Aynu Itak
  • Ryukyuan languages
  • Amami
  • Kikai
  • Kunigami
  • Miyako
  • Okinawan
  • Okinoerabu
  • Tokunoshima
  • Yaeyama
  • Yonaguni
  • Yoron
National flower: 














Relating to a population subgroup :
  • 98.5% Japanese
  • 0.5% Korean
  • 0.4% Chinese
  • 0.2% Filipino
  • 0.2% Brazilian
  • 0.1% Vietnamese
  • 0.1% other

Parlament of Japan



Legislature
National Diet
 • 
Upper house
House of Councillors
 • 
Lower house
House of Representatives


 • 
Total Area
377,972.28 km
145,935.91 sq mi
 • 
Water (%)
0.8
Population
 • 
2015 estimate
126,919,659
 • 
2015 census
127,110,047
 • 
Density
340.8/km2
882.7/sq mi
Currency
Yen (¥) 
Time zone
JST (UTC+9)
 • 
Summer (DST)
not observed (UTC+9)


Date format

  • yyyy-mm-dd
  • yyyyå¹´m月dæ—¥
  • Era yyå¹´m月dæ—¥ (CE−1988)





Drives on the
left
Calling code
+81
ISO 3166 code
JP
Internet TLD
.jp  

 National Bird of Japan.

Mountain of Japan:



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