Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon or Nihon) is an island country of East
Asia in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It borders the Sea of Japan to the
west and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China
Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire
and comprises an archipelago of 6,852 islands covering 377,975 square
kilometers (145,937 sq mi); its five main islands, from north to south,
are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the
country's capital and largest city; other major cities include Osaka and
Nagoya.
Japan is the 11th most populous country in the world, as well as one of
the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the
country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 126.2
million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is administratively divided into
47 prefectures and traditionally divided into eight regions. The Greater
Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with
more than 37.4 million residents.
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