| Official name | Japan |
| Name in local language | Nippon - 日本 (ja) |
| Continent | Asia |
| Subcontinent | East Asia |
| Population (ranking: 11e) | 126,050,098 inhabitants (2021) |
| Population growth | -0.14 % / year |
| Area | 377,972 km² |
| Density | 333.49 inhabitants / km² |
| GDP (ranking: 3e) | 5,064.873 billions $USD (2019) |
| GDP/capita (ranking) | 40,113 $USD (2019) |
| GDP growth | 0.30 % / year (2019) |
| Life expectancy (ranking) | 84.60 years (2019) |
| Birth rate | 7.80 ‰ (2016) |
| Fertility rate | 1.44 children / woman (2016) |
| Death rate (ranking) | 10.50 ‰ (2016) |
| Infant mortality rate (ranking) | 2.00 ‰ (2016) |
| Literacy rate | 100.00 % (2017) |
| Official languages | Japanese |
| Currency | Yen (¥ JPY) |
| HDI (ranking: 28e) | 0.919 / 1 (2019) |
| EPI (ranking) | 74.69 (2018) |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| Head of State | Emperor Naruhito (徳仁) ; Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (岸田 文雄) |
| National Day | 23 February (emperor anniversary) |
| ISO Codes | JP, JPN |
| Demonym | Japanese |
| Tourists (ranking) | 31,192,000 people (2018) |
Japan is an island state of East Asia, located off North Korea and South Korea, Russia and China. It forms an archipelago of 6,852 islands over a length of 3,000 kilometers.
The economic strength of Japan, undeniable, is losing ground in Asia, especially with the very strong emergence of China, which has won the second place in the world. The low demography is a big part of it.
Mount Fuji. Photo: Wildlife Archives
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Urban areas (2014)
| Urban areas | Population |
|---|---|
| Tokyo | 42,796,714 inhabitants |
| Osaka-Kyoto-Kobé | 19,777,590 inhabitants |
| Nagoya | 11,321,935 inhabitants |
| Fukuoka-Kitakyushu | 4,293,873 inhabitants |
| Sapporo | 2,622,978 inhabitants |
| Hiroshima | 1,882,601 inhabitants |
| Sendai | 1,749,503 inhabitants |
| Shizuoka | 1,621,685 inhabitants |
| Okayama | 1,305,335 inhabitants |
| Hamamatsu | 1,234,889 inhabitants |
| Niigata | 835,326 inhabitants |
| Kumamoto | 677,669 inhabitants |
| Oita | 654,213 inhabitants |
| Toyohashi | 615,309 inhabitants |
| Kagoshima | 610,820 inhabitants |
| Matsuyama | 525,051 inhabitants |
| Wakayama | 521,990 inhabitants |
| Nagasaki | 429,110 inhabitants |
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Administrative divisions
| Islands and Prefectures | Population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Aichi | 7,455,351 inhabitants | 5,116 km² |
| Akita | 1,036,982 inhabitants | 11,636 km² |
| Aomori | 1,321,083 inhabitants | 9,645 km² |
| Chiba | 6,197,218 inhabitants | 5,082 km² |
| Ehime | 1,395,483 inhabitants | 5,679 km² |
| Fukui | 789,604 inhabitants | 4,190 km² |
| Fukuoka | 5,091,106 inhabitants | 4,847 km² |
| Fukushima | 1,935,456 inhabitants | 13,783 km² |
| Gifu | 2,041,207 inhabitants | 9,768 km² |
| Gunma | 1,976,029 inhabitants | 6,362 km² |
| Hiroshima | 2,833,320 inhabitants | 8,480 km² |
| Hokkaidō (île et préfecture) | 5,400,120 inhabitants | 83,457 km² |
| Honshū (île) | 102,971,446 inhabitants | 231,231 km² |
| Hyōgo | 5,541,074 inhabitants | 8,396 km² |
| Ibaraki | 2,918,710 inhabitants | 6,096 km² |
| Ishikawa | 1,155,720 inhabitants | 4,186 km² |
| Iwate | 1,284,426 inhabitants | 15,279 km² |
| Kagawa | 981,082 inhabitants | 1,862 km² |
| Kagoshima | 1,667,830 inhabitants | 9,045 km² |
| Kanagawa | 9,096,022 inhabitants | 2,416 km² |
| Kōchi | 737,737 inhabitants | 7,105 km² |
| Kumamoto | 1,794,091 inhabitants | 7,268 km² |
| Kyoto | 2,609,693 inhabitants | 4,613 km² |
| Kyūshū (île) | 13,059,705 inhabitants | 42,232 km² |
| Mie | 1,825,377 inhabitants | 5,762 km² |