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Prefectures of Japan

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

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The prefectures

1. 1Hokkaidō77,984 km²
2. 2Iwate Prefecture15,275 km²
3. 3Fukushima Prefecture13,784 km²
4. 4Nagano Prefecture13,585 km²
5. 5Niigata Prefecture12,582 km²
6. 6Akita Prefecture11,638 km²
7. 7Gifu Prefecture10,621 km²
8. 8Aomori Prefecture9,646 km²
9. 9Yamagata Prefecture9,323 km²
10. 10Kagoshima Prefecture9,132 km²
11. 11Hiroshima Prefecture8,477 km²
12. 12Hyōgo Prefecture8,401 km²
13. 13Shizuoka Prefecture7,780 km²
14. 14Miyazaki Prefecture7,736 km²
15. 15Kumamoto Prefecture7,404 km²
16. 16Miyagi Prefecture7,282 km²
17. 17Okayama Prefecture7,113 km²
18. 18Kōchi Prefecture7,104 km²
19. 19Shimane Prefecture6,708 km²
20. 20Tochigi Prefecture6,408 km²
21. 21Gunma Prefecture6,362 km²
22. 22Ōita Prefecture6,341 km²
23. 23Yamaguchi Prefecture6,111 km²
24. 24Ibaraki Prefecture6,097 km²
25. 25Mie Prefecture5,777 km²
26. 26Ehime Prefecture5,676 km²
27. 27Aichi Prefecture5,165 km²
28. 28Chiba Prefecture5,158 km²
29. 29Fukuoka Prefecture4,971 km²
30. 30Wakayama Prefecture4,726 km²
31. 31Kyōto Prefecture4,612 km²
32. 32Yamanashi Prefecture4,465 km²
33. 33Toyama Prefecture4,247 km²
34. 34Fukui Prefecture4,189 km²
35. 35Ishikawa Prefecture4,185 km²
36. 36Tokushima Prefecture4,145 km²
37. 37Nagasaki Prefecture4,105 km²
38. 38Shiga Prefecture4,017 km²
39. 39Saitama Prefecture3,798 km²
40. 40Nara Prefecture3,691 km²
41. 41Tottori Prefecture3,507 km²
42. 42Saga Prefecture2,440 km²
43. 43Kanagawa Prefecture2,416 km²
44. 44Okinawa Prefecture2,281 km²
45. 45Tokyo2,194 km²
46. 46Ōsaka Prefecture1,905 km²
47. 47Kagawa Prefecture1,862 km²

Area in km²: Wikidata’s figure (P2046, the whole or the land area, whichever matches the outline) where it is within a factor of two of the outline’s area. Each item names its source. Sources: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0).

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