Japan, island country lying off the east coast of Asia. It consists of a great string of islands in a northeast-southwest arc that stretches for approximately 1,500 miles (2,400 km) through the western North Pacific Ocean. Nearly the entire land area is taken up by the country’s four main islands; from north to south these are Hokkaido (Hokkaid?), Honshu (Honsh?), Shikoku, and Kyushu (Ky?sh?).
- Land of the Rising Sun.
- Total Área: 377,973.89 km2 (145,936.53 sq mi)
- Population: 1 26,317,000 (2019) 126 million
- Capital city: Tokyo (population: 13 million
- Largest Japanese cities (by population, from most to fewest people): Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kobe, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Kawasaki, Saitama, Hiroshima, Sendai, Kitakyushu, Chiba
- Ethnic groups: Japanese (approx. 98.5% of population), Koreans (0.5%), Chinese (0.4%), other (0.6%)
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