Japan
East AsiaAsia
An island country of volcanoes, bullet trains and ancient temples. You will find Japan in East Asia. The capital is Tokyo. About 126 million people live in the country.
- Capital
- Tokyo
- People
- 126 million
- Size
- 370,000 km²
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Japan is made up of more than 14,000 islands. Almost everybody lives on the four largest.
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The Shinkansen bullet trains run at up to 320 kilometres an hour.
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The ground shakes often: Japan has about 1,500 earthquakes a year that people can feel.
Compare with
Size
Japan370,000 km²
United Kingdom240,000 km²You could fit the United Kingdom into Japan about 1.5 times.
People
Japan126 millionUnited Kingdom67 millionAbout 1.9 times as many people live in Japan as in the United Kingdom.
Its colours are white and red.
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- Tokyo
- Osaka
- Yokohama
- Nagoya
- Fukuoka
- Sapporo
- Sendai
- Hiroshima
- Kyoto
- Kōbe
- Kawasaki
- Kitakyūshū
- Hamamatsu
- Naha
- Okayama
- Kumamoto
- Shizuoka
- Utsunomiya
- Nagano
- Hachiōji
- Niigata
- Kagoshima
- Kanazawa
- Ōtsu
- Matsuyama
- Tsu
- Ōita
- Tokushima
- Wakayama
- Nagasaki
- Gifu
- Iwaki
- Asahikawa
- Mito
- Maebashi
- Kōriyama
- Kawagoe
- Kōchi
- Takamatsu
- Toyama
- Miyazaki
- Akita
- Hakodate
- Aomori
- Morioka
- Fukushima
- Yamagata
- Fukui
- Shimonoseki
- Hachinohe
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Neighbours
No country borders Japan over land: there is sea all around.
Nearby countries
China
Mongolia
North Korea
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