prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total as of January 2014. There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns, villages...

area survey by prefectures and municipalities (as of October 1)] (in Japanese). Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. December 26, 2019. Archived from...

original sense in Portuguese, however, was closer to "municipality" than "province". Today, in turn, Japan uses its word ken (県), meaning "prefecture", to identify...

list below). Japan portal Geography portal Lists portal Municipalities of Japan List of cities in Japan List of towns in Japan Japanese addressing system...

involved a drastic program of municipality mergers. Overall, the "Great Meiji Mergers" cut the number of municipalities in Japan by more than three quarters...

neighboring municipalities and subsequent population growth. The metropolitan areas written in bold are the 8 major metropolitan areas of Japan. October...

dissolutions of municipalities in Japan for each prefecture. For a list of dissolved municipalities, see also: Category:Dissolved municipalities of Japan and the...

Nominally, Dalian was a municipality as well, although it was under Japanese control. These cities were first called special municipalities/cities (特别市; tèbiéshì)...

National area of each prefecture municipality (as of October 1)" (in Japanese). Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. 26 December 2019. Archived from...

In Japan, the national government issues vehicle registration plates for motor vehicles through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism...