A prefectural capital is a city where a prefectural government and assembly is located.
Japan edit
In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi (都道府県庁所在地, "seat of a prefectural government", singular: 都庁所在地,tochō shozaichi in the [Tōkyō]-to, 道庁所在地, dōchō shozaichi in the [Hokkai]-dō, 府庁所在地, fuchō shozaichi in -fu, 県庁所在地, kenchō shozaichi in -ken), but the term kento (県都, "prefectural capital") is also used (dōto (道都, in the -dō, but never "futo" or "toto")).
List of Japanese prefectural capitals edit
Notes: ¹ As of 1 May 2008[update]
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In most cases, a city that shares a name with its prefecture is a prefectural capital. However, there are some municipalities that are not capitals.
- Iwate, Iwate Prefecture
- Ibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture
- Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture
- Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture
- Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture
Capitals that are not the largest city/metropolitan area in their prefecture edit
Those in italics are prefectural capitals, or metropolitan areas of them.
1. | Iwaki | 348,322 | 1. | Kōriyama Metropolitan Area | 537,493 |
2. | Kōriyama | 338,887 | 2. | Fukushima Metropolitan Area | 412,353 |
3. | Fukushima | 294,724 | 3. | Iwaki Metropolitan Area | 365,864 |
1. | Takasaki | 342,662 | 1. | Takasaki Metropolitan Area | 532,271 |
2. | Maebashi | 317,114 | 2. | Maebashi Metropolitan Area | 458,996 |
1. | Yokkaichi | 307,418 | 1. | Yokkaichi Metropolitan Area | 606,071 |
2. | Tsu | 288,874 | 2. | Tsu Metropolitan Area | 308,375 |
1. | Hamamatsu | 812,692 | 1. | Shizuoka Metropolitan Area | 999,360 |
2. | Shizuoka | 709,772 | 2. | Hamamatsu Metropolitan Area | 919,933 |
1. | Tottori | 199,263 | 1. | Yonago Metropolitan Area | 252,387 |
2. | Yonago | 148,234 | 2. | Tottori Metropolitan Area | 249,067 |
1. | Shimonoseki | 284,693 | 1. | Shimonoseki Metropolitan Area | 287,935 |
2. | Yamaguchi | 191,740 | 2. | Ube Metropolitan Area | 258,180 |
3. | Ube | 175,334 | 3. | Yamaguchi Metropolitan Area | 178,402 |
Notes:
- City populations are as of July 2008.
- Metropolitan area populations are as of 2000. (Urban Employment Areas)
References edit
- ^ 都庁の所在地 Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine Shinjuku is the location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo not having itself been a "municipality" since 1943.
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