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Largest city of each prefecture of Japan

47 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Tokyo9.9 M
  2. 2Yokohama3.8 M
  3. 3Osaka2.8 M
  4. 4Nagoya2.3 M
  5. 5Sapporo2 M
  6. 6Fukuoka1.7 M
  7. 7Kobe1.5 M
  8. 8Kyoto1.4 M
  9. 9Saitama1.3 M
  10. 10Hiroshima1.2 M
  11. 11Sendai1.1 M
  12. 12Chiba995 k
  13. 13Hamamatsu765 k
  14. 14Niigata759 k
  15. 15Kumamoto731 k
  16. 16Okayama707 k
  17. 17Kagoshima581 k
  18. 18Utsunomiya511 k
  19. 19Matsuyama497 k
  20. 20Oita470 k
  21. 21Kanazawa454 k
  22. 22Takamatsu407 k
  23. 23Toyama399 k
  24. 24Miyazaki390 k
  25. 25Gifu388 k
  26. 26Nagasaki382 k
  27. 27Takasaki363 k
  28. 28Nagano357 k
  29. 29Otsu343 k
  30. 30Wakayama342 k
  31. 31Nara338 k
  32. 32Koriyama313 k
  33. 33Naha311 k
  34. 34Kochi309 k
  35. 35Yokkaichi304 k
  36. 36Akita293 k
  37. 37Morioka278 k
  38. 38Tsukuba269 k
  39. 39Aomori256 k
  40. 40Fukui252 k
  41. 41Tokushima241 k
  42. 42Shimonoseki238 k
  43. 43Yamagata235 k
  44. 44Saga228 k
  45. 45Matsue193 k
  46. 46Kofu183 k
  47. 47Tottori179 k

Japan’s own list of its cities: the population of each municipality as Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) counts it (2025 Population Census, basic complete tabulation, final results, table 1-1: population by municipality, 1 October 2025), the way the country ranks its cities. A city that is not one of the list’s municipalities of 10,000 people or more is left out. Metro area, urban centre and city proper rank the same cities by the worldwide measures instead, so they compare across borders. One per group: the largest city of each prefecture by this measure, then ranked together. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (final figures), 1 October 2025, Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of Largest city of each prefecture of Japan, 47 cities: each one marked on the globe

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