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Japanese cities

Over a million

NamePopulation (millions)Other names
>中京 (Chūkyū)8.91名古屋 (Nagoya)
広島 (Hiroshima)1.91
鹿児島 (Kagoshima)1.62
関東 (Kanto MMA)338.21Tōkyō
京阪神 (Keihanshin MMA)417.41Ōsaka-Kōbe-Kyōto
北九州-福岡 (Kitakyūshū-Fukuoka)54.31Fukuoka-Kitakyūshū
熊夲 (Kumamoto)1.42
新潟 (Niigata)1.42
岡山 (Okayama)1.62
札幌 (Sapporo)2.71
仙台 (Sendai)1.71
靜岡-浜松 (Shizuoka-Hamamatsu MMA)2.96

Selected smaller cities or former cities of historical note

NameOther names
千歳 (Chitose)
冨士宮 (Fujinomiya)
冨士吉田 (Fujiyoshida)
御殿塲 (Gotenba)
那覇 (Naha)
南城 (Nanjo)
南砺 (Nanto)
⽇光 (Nikkō)
大田 (Ōda)
新宮 (Shingū)
田辺 (Tanabe)
うるま (Uruma)
読谷 (Yomitan)

Footnotes

1. 2012 calculation from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013.
2. 2005 figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Japan_by_population, accessed 3/25/2014.
3. Tōkyō is the largest city if treated as such. Technically it is a prefecture but not a legal city. There are 23 wards within the city that have semi-city status. Together they have 8.6 million people according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo, accessed 3/25/2014. Other large cities in the MMA are: Saitama, 1.2 million; Yokohama, 3.6 million; and Kawasaki, 1.4 million. These population figures are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
4. 大阪 (Ōsaka) is the largest of the centers with 2.6 million residents. The other two major cities are: 神戸 (Kōbe), 1.5 million; and 亰都 (Kyōto), 1.4 million. These population figures are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
5. Fukuoka is the larger of the centers with 1.4 million residents according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
6. The combined metropolitan area was defined in 2010. The figure here is the sum of 1.6 million for 靜岡 (Shizuoka), the 2012 calculation from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013, and 1.3 million for 浜松 (Hamamatsu), the 2005 census figure from the Statistics Bureau of Japan, cited in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Japan_by_population, accessed 3/25/2014.