Chiba
Chiba Prefecture is located directly east of Tokyo, and bordered by Ibaraki Prefecture to the north. A large part of the prefecture is made up of the Bōsō Peninsula, which shields Tokyo bay from the Pacific Ocean.Photo: Nanashinodensyaku, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Urayasu
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Urayasu is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The city is home to Tokyo Disney Resort.
Narita International Airport
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Narita International Airport is the primary international airport serving Tokyo, in Japan.
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Kashiwa
Kashiwa is a city in Chiba prefecture, Japan. It is locally known as "Little Shibuya" due to the shopping.
Narita
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Narita is a city in Chiba prefecture, Japan, some 70 kilometers to the northeast of Tokyo.
Matsudo
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Matsudo is located east of Tokyo, in the northwestern part of Chiba prefecture.
Sakura
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Sakura is a city in the Chiba prefecture known for its large history museum and yearly tulip festival.
Yachimata
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Yachimata is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 68,769 in 32,118 households and a population density of 920 persons per km2.
Noda
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Noda is a city located in the northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Choshi
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Chōshi is a city in Chiba Prefecture. Its fishery port is one of the largest in Japan in terms of amount of fish caught.
Boso Peninsula
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Boso Peninsula, and its main city Tateyama are at the very South of Chiba prefecture.
Onjuku
Onjuku is a fishing town on the Pacific coast of Chiba prefecture, Japan and a popular spot with surfers and holiday beachgoers.
Chiba
- Type: prefecture of Japan with 6,280,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Neighbors: Ibaraki, Saitama and Tokyo
- Location: Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
35.6051° or 35° 36' 18" northLongitude of centre
140.1233° or 140° 7' 24" eastPopulation
6,280,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)GeoNames ID
2113014Wikidata ID
Q80011Chiba Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Prefektur Chiba
- Afrikaans: Chiba-prefektuur
- Afrikaans: Chiba Prefektuur
- Arabic: Chiba
- Arabic: تشيبا
- Arabic: محافظة تشيبا
- Armenian: Թիբա (պրեֆեկտուրա)
- Armenian: Թիբա
- Asturian: Chiba (Xapón)
- Asturian: Chiba (prefeutura)
- Asturian: Chiba
- Asturian: prefeutura de Chiba
- Azerbaijani: Çiba prefekturası
- Balinese: Préféktur Chiba
- Bashkir: Тиба (префектура)
- Bashkir: Тиба
- Basque: Chiba
- Belarusian: Тыба (прэфектура)
- Belarusian: Тыба
- Belarusian: прэфектура Тыба
- Belarusian: прэфэктура Тыба
- Bengali: চিবা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল
- Bulgarian: Чиба
- Catalan: Prefectura de Chiba
- Catalan: prefectura de Chiba
- Cebuano: Chiba-ken
- Central Kurdish: چیبا
- Chechen: Тиба (префектура)
- Chechen: Тиба
- Chinese: Tiba-koān
- Chinese: 千叶县
- Chinese: 千葉県
- Chinese: 千葉縣
- Croatian: Chiba
- Croatian: Prefektura Chiba
- Czech: Prefektura Čiba
- Czech: Čiba-ken
- Czech: 千葉県
- Danish: Chiba-ken
- Danish: Chiba-præfekturet
- Danish: Chiba
- Dutch: Chiba
- English: Chiba-ken
- English: Chiba Prefecture
- English: Prefecture of Chiba
- Esperanto: Chiba
- Esperanto: Chiba prefektujo
- Esperanto: Gubernio Ĉiba
- Esperanto: Ĉiba-prefektujo
- Esperanto: Ĉiba
- Esperanto: Ĉiba prefektujo
- Estonian: Chiba prefektuur
- Finnish: Chiban prefektuuri
- French: Chiba
- French: Chiba-ken
- French: Préfecture de Chiba
- French: préfecture de Chiba
- Galician: Prefectura de Chiba
- Georgian: ტიბის პრეფექტურა
- German: Chiba
- German: Chiba-ken
- German: Chiba Prefecture
- German: JP-12
- German: Präfektur Chiba
- Greek: Νομός Τσίμπα
- Gujarati: ચિબા પ્રીફેકચર
- Hakka Chinese: Chiba-yen
- Hausa: Chiba-yen
- Hebrew: צ'יבה
- Hindi: शिबा प्रीफेक्चर
- Hungarian: Csiba prefektúra
- Iloko: Chiba
- Iloko: Prefectura ti Chiba
- Indonesian: Prefektur Chiba
- Irish: Maoracht Chiba
- Italian: prefettura di Chiba
- Japanese: 千葉
- Japanese: 千葉県
- Javanese: Prefektur Chiba
- Javanese: Préfèktur Chiba
- Kannada: ಚಿಬಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್
- Khmer: ខេត្តឈីបា
- Khmer: អាណាខេត្ត ឈីបា
- Korean: 지바 현
- Korean: 지바현
- Korean: 천엽현
- Korean: 천엽 현
- Korean: 치바현
- Korean: 치바 현
- Lao: Prepektura ti Chiba
- Latin: Chibaënsis
- Latin: Tiba
- Latvian: Tibas prefektūra
- Latvian: Čibas prefektūra
- Literary Chinese: 千葉縣
- Lithuanian: Chiba prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Čiba prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Čibos prefektūra
- Macedonian: Чиба
- Malay: Wilayah Chiba
- Manipuri: ꯆꯤꯕꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Marathi: चिबा
- Marathi: चिबा प्रांत
- Min Dong Chinese: Chiba-gâing
- Min Nan Chinese: Chiba-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Chiba-kōan
- Min Nan Chinese: Tiba-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Tiba-kōan
- Min Nan Chinese: Tiba Koān
- Mongolian: Чиба-кэн
- Mongolian: Чиба
- Mongolian: ꯆꯤꯕꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Northern Frisian: Chiba (Prefektüür)
- Northern Frisian: Chiba
- Northern Sami: Chiba prefektuvra
- Norwegian: Chiba
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chiba prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chiba prefektur
- Novial: Chiba Prefekture
- Occitan (post 1500): Chiba
- Occitan (post 1500): Prefectura de Chiba
- Ossetian: Тибæ (префектурæ)
- Ossetian: Тибæ
- Pampanga: Chiba Prefecture
- Pampanga: Prepektura ning Chiba
- Persian: استان چیبا
- Polish: Prefektura Chiba
- Portuguese: Chiba
- Romanian: Chiba
- Romanian: Prefectura Chiba
- Russian: Тиба
- Scots: Chiba Prefectur
- Serbian: Префектура Чиба
- Serbian: Чиба
- Serbo-Croatian: Chiba
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Chiba
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Ćiba
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Čiba
- Serbo-Croatian: Ćiba
- Serbo-Croatian: Čiba
- Sinhala: චිබා ප්රාන්තය
- Slovak: Čiba
- Slovenian: Prefektura Čiba
- South Azerbaijani: چیبا اوستانی
- Spanish: Chiba
- Spanish: Chiba Japon
- Spanish: Chiba Japón
- Spanish: Prefectura de Chiba
- Sundanese: Chiba Prefecture
- Sundanese: Préféktur Chiba
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Chiba
- Swedish: Chiba
- Swedish: Chiba län
- Swedish: Chiba prefektur
- Tagalog: Chiba
- Tagalog: Chiba Prefecture
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Chiba
- Tagalog: Prepekturang Chiba
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Tsiba
- Tagalog: Prepekturang Tsiba
- Tajik: Префектураи Тиба
- Tajik: Префектураи Чиба
- Tamil: சீபா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்
- Tatar: Тиба (префектура)
- Tatar: Тиба
- Telugu: చిబా ప్రిఫెక్చర్
- Thai: จังหวัดจิบะ
- Thai: จังหวัดชิบะ
- Turkish: Chiba
- Turkish: Chiba ili
- Turkish: Chiba prefektörlüğü
- Uighur: چىبا
- Uighur: چىبا ناھىيەسى
- Ukrainian: Префектура Тіба
- Ukrainian: Префектура Чіба
- Ukrainian: Тіба
- Urdu: چیبا پریفیکچر
- Vietnamese: Chiba
- Vietnamese: Thiên Diệp huyện
- Waray (Philippines): Chiba
- Waray (Philippines): Chiba Prefecture
- Welsh: Chiba
- Western Panjabi: ضلع چیبا
- Wu Chinese: 千叶县
- Yue Chinese: 千叶县
- Yue Chinese: 千葉
- Yue Chinese: 千葉縣
- Prefettura di Chiba
- پارێزگای چیبا
- ちばけん
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