An archipelago of about 14,000 islands sitting on four tectonic plates, with roughly 1,500 earthquakes felt each year.
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Japan
Japan ยท ๆฅๆฌ
Asia
ยท Eastern Asia
0Population
377.93Kkmยฒ of land
$40.25KGDP / person
TokyoCapital
- ISO codes
- JP ยท JPN
- Density
- 334 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Japanese
- Currency
- Japanese yen (JPY)
- Dial code
- +81
- Internet domain
- .jp
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 36.1430ยฐ N, 138.4420ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Japanese
- UN region
- Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Developed region: G7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $5.08T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Japan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
11th
of 242 ยท 1.64% of world population
Land area
63rd
of 242 ยท 0.25% of world land
GDP per person
41st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
35th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Japan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 126,264,931 people, the 11th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.64 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 377,930 kmยฒ, making it the 63rd largest country here - about 9.2 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 334 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Tokyo, at 35.69ยฐ N, 139.75ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 35,676,000.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Tokyo.
The currency is the Japanese yen (JPY, symbol ยฅ).
The official language is Japanese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Tokyo
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UTC+09:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Tokyo
Tokyo
35.6870ยฐ N, 139.7495ยฐ E
35.68M
2
ลsaka
Osaka
34.7520ยฐ N, 135.4582ยฐ E
11.29M
3
Nagoya
Aichi
35.1569ยฐ N, 136.9130ยฐ E
3.23M
4
Fukuoka
Fukuoka
33.5970ยฐ N, 130.4081ยฐ E
2.79M
5
Sapporo
Hokkaido
43.0769ยฐ N, 141.3381ยฐ E
2.54M
6
Sendai
Miyagi
38.2891ยฐ N, 141.0198ยฐ E
2.25M
7
Hiroshima
Hiroshima
34.3898ยฐ N, 132.4410ยฐ E
2.05M
8
Kyoto
Kyoto
35.0319ยฐ N, 135.7481ยฐ E
1.81M
9
Naha
Okinawa
26.2072ยฐ N, 127.6730ยฐ E
905.24K
10
Nagano
Nagano
36.6500ยฐ N, 138.1700ยฐ E
594.31K
๐ Peaks
Mount Fuji
3,776 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Kyoto Temples
City
Sixteen hundred temples and a thousand years as the imperial capital, spared from wartime bombing.
Kiyomizu-dera & Fushimi Inari
Spiritual
Around ten thousand vermilion torii gates, each one donated, climbing four kilometres up a sacred hill.