Japan (Ume)
Japan | |
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 Flag
 Imperial Seal
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Royal anthem: 君が代 "Kimigayo" (English: His Majesty's Reign) | |
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| Capital and largest city | Tokyo |
| Official languages | Japanese |
| Recognised regional languages |
Taiwanese Hakka Kango Indigenous languages |
| Demonym(s) | Japanese |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Emperor | Naruhito |
• Prime Minister | Katsuya Okada |
| Legislature | National Diet |
| House of Councillors | |
| House of Representatives | |
| Formation | |
• Imperial dynasty founded | 11 February 660 BC |
• Meiji Constitution | 29 November 1890 |
• Treaty of Shimonoseki | 17 April 1895 |
• Current Constitution | 10 October 1955 |
• Tahiti Act | 28 March 1960 |
| Area | |
• Total | 418,583 km2 (161,616 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2022 estimate | 155,280,000 (8th) |
• 2020 census | 155,374,492 |
• Density | 371.19/km2 (961.4/sq mi) (21st) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2021 estimate |
• Total | $5.637 trillion (3rd) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2021 estimate |
• Total | $5.739 trillion (3rd) |
| HDI (2019) |
0.937 very high · 12th |
| Currency | Japanese yen (¥) |
| Time zone | UTC+9, -10 |
• Summer (DST) | not observed |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +81 |
| Internet TLD | .jp |
Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon or Nihon) is an island country in East Asia, primarily located in the northwest Pacific Ocean, where it extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to South China Sea to the south. It is bound to the west by the Sea of Japan and Taiwan Strait, and shares maritime borders with China, South Korea, Russia, the United States, and the Phillippines. Japan spans 6897 islands across the Pacific Ocean, most of them located in the Japanese archipelago. The country's six main islands— Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa, and Taiwan— host a majority of the population of over 155.3 million.
Japan is the eighth-most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. It is a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy that is divided into 58 administrative prefectures and 11 traditional regions. Its capital, Tokyo, is the world's largest metropolitan area by population. Other major cities include Taihoku, Yokohama, Osaka, Takao, Nagoya, Taichu, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.