Japan
Japan, known as Nihon or Nippon in Japanese, is an island nation in East Asia. Its insular character has allowed it to develop a unique and very intricate culture, while its closeness to other ancient East Asian cultures, in particular China, has left lasting influence.Tap on the map to travel |
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Tokyo
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Tokyo is the enormous and wealthy capital of Japan, and also its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people.
Osaka
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Ōsaka is the beating heart of Japan's Kansai region and the largest of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto trio, with a population of over 17 million people in the greater metropolitan area.
Kyoto
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Kyōto was the capital of Japan for over a millennium, and carries a reputation as the nation's most beautiful city and its cultural capital.
Destinations
Kanto
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The Kantō region of Japan, on the eastern side of the main island Honshu, is a broad plain dominated by and nearly synonymous with the megalopolis of Tokyo and its suburbs.
Chubu
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Chūbu is the central region of Japan's Honshu island, located at the border between West Japan and East Japan.
Kansai
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Kansai is the western region of the main Japanese island of Honshu, second only to Kanto region of Eastern Japan in population.
Shikoku
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Shikoku is an oft-forgotten island in Japan. The smallest of Japan's Big Four with around four million inhabitants, it lies to the south of Honshu.
Okinawa
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Okinawa Prefecture is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, an island chain to the southwest of the Home Islands.
Japan
- Type: Country with 127,000,000 residents
- Description: island country in East Asia
- Language: Japanese
- Neighbors: China, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan and United States
- Categories: sovereign state, island country, OECD country and locality
- Location: East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
36.75° or 36° 45' northLongitude of centre
139.6° or 139° 36' eastPopulation
127,000,000Area
377,835 km² (145,883 miles²)Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)Capital
TokyoCurrency
Yen (JPY)Phone code
.jpInternet domain
81OpenStreetMap ID
node 424313451OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1861060Wikidata ID
Q17Japan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Yapan
- Abkhazian: Иапониа
- Achinese: Jeupun
- Adyghe: Японие
- Afar: Japan
- Afar: Yaponiya
- Afrikaans: Japan
- Afrikaans: Staat Japan
- Akan: Gyapan
- Akan: Japan
- Albanian: Japoni
- Albanian: Japonia
- Amharic: Japan
- Amharic: ጃፓን
- Amis: Japan
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ἰαπωνία
- Angika: जापान
- Arabic: Hapon
- Arabic: اليابان
- Arabic: دولة اليابان
- Arabic: يابان
- Aragonese: Chapón
- Armenian: Ճապոնիա
- Armenian: Ճափոն
- Arpitan: Japon
- Arpitan: J·apon
- Assamese: জাপান
- Asturian: Xapón
- Atayal: Gipun
- Atayal: Japan
- Atikamekw: Japan
- Avaric: Nipona
- Avaric: Япония
- Awadhi: जापान
- Aymara: Nihun
- Azerbaijani: Yaponiya
- Balinese: Jepang
- Bambara: Japan
- Bambara: Zapɔn
- Banjar: Japang
- Bashkir: Япония
- Basque: Japonia
- Bavarian: Japan
- Belarusian: Японія
- Bengali: জাপান
- Bengali: নিপ্পন
- Bengali: সূর্য উদয়ের দেশ
- Bhojpuri: उगते सूरज का देश
- Bhojpuri: जपान
- Bhojpuri: जापान
- Bhojpuri: निप्पन
- Bishnupriya: জাপান
- Bislama: Japan
- Bosnian: Japan
- Brahui: Jápán
- Breton: Japan
- Breton: Japon
- Buginese: ᨍᨛᨄ
- Buginese: ᨓᨊᨘᨕ ᨍᨛᨄ
- Bulgarian: Япония
- Bulgarian: страната на изгряващото Слънце
- Burmese: ဂျပန်
- Burmese: ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Estat del Japó
- Catalan: Japó
- Catalan: el Japó
- Cebuano: Hapon
- Central Bikol: Hapon
- Central Kurdish: JA
- Central Kurdish: JAP
- Central Kurdish: دەوڵەتی ژاپۆن
- Central Kurdish: نیپۆن
- Central Kurdish: نیھۆن
- Central Kurdish: ژاپۆن
- Central Kurdish: یابان
- Central Okinawan: やまとぅ
- Central Okinawan: やまとぅくく
- Central Okinawan: 大和
- Central Okinawan: 大和国
- Chamorro: Chapan
- Chavacano: Japón
- Chechen: Япон
- Chechen: Япони
- Cherokee: ᏣᏆᏂᏱ
- Cherokee: ᏣᏩᏂᏏ
- Cheyenne: Japan
- Chinese: Ji̍t-pún
- Chinese: Rìběn
- Chinese: 大日本帝国
- Chinese: 日本
- Chinese: 日本国
- Chinese: 日本國
- Choctaw: Japan
- Church Slavic: Ꙗпѡнїꙗ
- Chuvash: Япони
- Cornish: Japan
- Cornish: Nihon
- Corsican: Ghjappone
- Corsican: Giappone
- Corsican: Statu di u Ghjappone
- Corsican: Statu di u Giappone
- Cree: Capān
- Cree: capān
- Cree: ᔭᐊᐸᐊᐣ
- Creek: Japan
- Crimean Tatar: Japon
- Crimean Tatar: Yaponiya
- Croatian: Japan
- Croatian: Nippon
- Croatian: Zemlja Izlazećeg Sunca
- Czech: Japonsko
- Dagbani: Japan
- Danish: Japan
- Dhivehi: ޖަޕާނު
- Dimli (individual language): Japonya
- Dimli (individual language): Naponya
- Dinka: Japan
- Dotyali: जापान
- Dutch: JP
- Dutch: JPN
- Dutch: Japan
- Dzongkha: ཇ་པཱན
- Dzongkha: ཇཱ་པཱན།
- Eastern Mari: Японий
- Egyptian Arabic: اليابان
- English: Iapan
- English: Iapon
- English: JA
- English: JAP
- English: JP
- English: JPN
- English: Ja
- English: Jap
- English: Land of Rising Sun
- English: Land of the Rising Sun
- English: Nihon-koku
- English: Nihon
- English: Nippon-koku
- English: Nippon
- English: State of Japan
- English: jp
- Erzya: Япония
- Erzya: Япония Мастор
- Esperanto: JP
- Esperanto: Japanio
- Esperanto: Japanujo
- Esperanto: Nipono
- Estonian: Jaapan
- Ewe: Dzapan nutome
- Ewe: Japan
- Extremaduran: Japón
- Faroese: Japan
- Fiji Hindi: Japan
- Fijian: Japani
- Finnish: Japani
- French: JP
- French: Jap.
- French: Japon
- French: le Japon
- French: pays du soleil levant
- French: État du Japon
- Friulian: Gjapon
- Fulah: Japan
- Fulah: Sapoo
- Gagauz: Yaponiya
- Galician: O Xapón
- Galician: Xapón - 日本
- Galician: Xapón
- Galician: ژاپؤن
- Galician: 日本
- Gan Chinese: 日本
- Ganda: Japan
- Ganda: Japani
- Georgian: იაპონია
- German: Japan
- German: Land der aufgehenden Sonne
- German: Nihon
- German: Nippon
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Japan
- Gheg Albanian: Japan
- Gilaki: ژاپؤن
- Goan Konkani: Japan
- Goan Konkani: जपान
- Goan Konkani: ಜಪಾನ್
- Gorontalo: Japangi
- Gothic: 𐌾𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌽
- Greek: Ιαπωνία
- Greek: Χώρα του ανατέλλοντος ηλίου
- Guarani: Hapõ
- Guianese Creole French: Japon
- Gujarati: Japan
- Gujarati: જાપાન
- Gun: Japan
- Haitian: Japon
- Hakka Chinese: Ngi̍t-pún
- Hausa: Iāpana
- Hausa: Japan
- Hausa: Ngi̍t-pún
- Hawaiian: Iāpana
- Hebrew: יפן
- Hindi: जापान
- Hungarian: Japán
- Icelandic: Japan
- Ido: Japonia
- Igbo: Japan
- Iloko: Hapon
- Inari Sami: Jaapaan
- Indonesian: Jepang
- Indonesian: Negara Jepang
- Indonesian: Negeri Matahari Terbit
- Indonesian: Tanah Matahari Terbit
- Ingush: Япони
- Interlingua: Japon
- Interlingue: Japan
- Inuktitut: ᓃᑉᐊᓐ
- Inupiaq: Japan
- Irish: An tSeapáin
- Irish: an tSeapáin
- Italian: Giappone
- Italian: Stato del Giappone
- Jamaican Creole English: Japan
- Japanese: Nippon
- Japanese: あきつしま
- Japanese: おおやしま
- Japanese: しきしま
- Japanese: しんしゅう
- Japanese: にっぽん
- Japanese: にっぽんこく
- Japanese: にほん
- Japanese: にほんこく
- Japanese: ひいずるくに
- Japanese: ふそう
- Japanese: ジャパン
- Japanese: 大八州
- Japanese: 扶桑
- Japanese: 敷島
- Japanese: 日出る国
- Japanese: 日本
- Japanese: 日本国
- Japanese: 神州
- Japanese: 秋津島
- Javanese: Jepang
- Kabardian: Япон
- Kabiyè: Japɔŋ
- Kabuverdianu: Japon
- Kabyle: Japun
- Kalaallisut: Japani
- Kalmyk: Ниxуудин Нутг
- Kannada: ಉದಯಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸೂರ್ಯನ ನಾಡು, ನಿಪ್ಪಾನ್,
- Kannada: ಜಪಾನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Yaponiya
- Karachay-Balkar: Япония
- Kashmiri: جاپان
- Kashmiri: جاپون
- Kashmiri: जापान
- Kashubian: Japòńskô
- Kazakh: Жапония
- Khmer: ជប៉ុន
- Kikuyu: Japan
- Kikuyu: Njabani
- Kinaray-A: Hapon
- Kinaray-A: pongsod Haponanun
- Kinaray-A: pongsod Haponis
- Kinaray-A: pungsod Haponanën
- Kinaray-A: pungsod Hapones
- Kinyarwanda: Ubuyapani
- Kirghiz: Жапония
- Kirghiz: Япония
- Komi-Permyak: Ниппон
- Komi: Япония
- Kongo: Japan
- Korean: 일본
- Korean: 일본국
- Kotava: Nipona
- Kuanyama: Japan
- Kurdish: Japon
- Kurdish: Japonya
- Kurdish: ژاپۆن
- Kölsch: Japan
- Ladin: Iapan
- Ladino: Djapon
- Ladino: Japon
- Lak: Japan
- Lak: Япония
- Lao: Hapon
- Lao: ຍີ່ປຸ່ນ
- Lao: ປະເທດຍີ່ປຸ່ນ
- Latgalian: Japoneja
- Latin: Iaponia
- Latvian: Japāna
- Lezghian: Япония
- Ligurian: Giappon
- Limburgan: Japan
- Lingala: Zapɔ
- Lingala: Zapɔ́
- Lingua Franca Nova: Japan
- Lingua Franca Nova: Nion
- Literary Chinese: 日本
- Lithuanian: Japonija
- Livvi: Japounii
- Lojban: pongu'e
- Lojban: pongue
- Lombard: Giapun
- Low German: Japan
- Lower Sorbian: Japańska
- Luba-Katanga: Japu
- Lule Sami: Japádna
- Lule Sami: Japánna
- Luxembourgish: Japan
- Macedo-Romanian: Japonia
- Macedonian: Јапонија
- Madurese: Jeppang
- Maithili: जापान
- Malagasy: Japana
- Malagasy: Japàna
- Malay: Jepun
- Malay: Negara Matahari Terbit
- Malay: جڤون
- Malayalam: ജപ്പാൻ
- Maltese: il-Ġappun
- Maltese: Ġappun
- Manipuri: ꯖꯄꯥꯟ
- Manx: Yn Çhapaan
- Manx: yn Çhapaan
- Maori: Hapani
- Maori: Nipono
- Marathi: जपान
- Marshallese: Japan
- Mazanderani: جاپون
- Min Dong Chinese: Nĭk-buōng
- Min Nan Chinese: Ji̍t-pún
- Minangkabau: Japang
- Mingrelian: იაპონია
- Mirandese: Japon
- Moksha: Японмастор
- Mon: ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ
- Mongolian: Япон
- Mongolian: ꯖꯄꯥꯟ
- Moroccan Arabic: الجاپون
- Moroccan Arabic: چاپون
- Mossi: Japan
- N'Ko: ߗ߭ߊߔߐ߲߫
- Narom: Japon
- Nauru: Djapan
- Navajo: Binaʼadaałtzózí Dinéʼiʼ Bikéyah
- Navajo: Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Ndonga: Japan
- Neapolitan: Giappone
- Nepali: जापान
- Newari: जापान
- Nias: Nifo
- Nigerian Pidgin: Japan
- North Ndebele: Japan
- Northern Frisian: Jaapan
- Northern Frisian: Japan
- Northern Luri: جاپون
- Northern Luri: چاپن
- Northern Sami: Japána
- Northern Sami: Jáhpan
- Norwegian: Japan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Japan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nihon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nippon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Japan
- Novial: Japan
- Nyanja: Japan
- Occitan (post 1500): Japon
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܝܦܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Iapan
- Oriya: ଜାପାନ
- Oriya: ଜାପାନ୍
- Oromo: Jaappaan
- Oromo: Japan
- Ossetian: Япон
- Pa'o Karen: ဂျပန်ခမ်းထီ
- Paiwan: Dripun
- Pali: जापान
- Pampanga: Hapon
- Pampanga: Hapun
- Pampanga: Japún
- Pangasinan: Hapon
- Panjabi: ਜਪਾਨ
- Papiamento: Hapon
- Pedi: Japane
- Pennsylvania German: Japan
- Persian: ژاپن
- Pfaelzisch: Japan
- Picard: Japon
- Piemontese: Giapon
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Japan
- Polish: Japonia
- Polish: Kraj Kwitnącej Wiśni
- Polish: Kraj Wschodzącego Słońca
- Polish: Nihon
- Polish: Nippon
- Pontic: Ιαπωνία
- Portuguese: Estado do Japão
- Portuguese: JA
- Portuguese: JAP
- Portuguese: JP
- Portuguese: JPN
- Portuguese: Ja
- Portuguese: Jap
- Portuguese: Japão
- Portuguese: Nihon
- Portuguese: Nihon-koku
- Portuguese: Nippon
- Portuguese: Nippon-koku
- Portuguese: Terra do Sol Nascente
- Portuguese: jp
- Pushto: جاپان
- Quechua: Japón
- Quechua: Nihun
- Rakhine: ဂျပန်ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံတော်
- Romanian: Japonia
- Romanian: Țara Crizantemei
- Romanian: Țara Soarelui Răsare
- Romanian: Țara crizantemei
- Romanian: Țara soarelui răsare
- Romanian: Жапония
- Romansh: Giapun
- Rundi: Ubuyapani
- Rundi: Yapon
- Russia Buriat: Япон Улас
- Russian: Ниппон
- Russian: Страна восходящего солнца
- Russian: Япония
- Rusyn: Японія
- Sakizaya: Zipun
- Samoan: Iapani
- Samogitian: Japuonėjė
- Sango: Zapöo
- Sango: Zapöon
- Sanskrit: जपान्
- Sanskrit: जापन:
- Sanskrit: जापान
- Santali: ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱ
- Saraiki: جاپان
- Sardinian: Giapone
- Sardinian: Giaponi
- Sardinian: Giappone
- Sardinian: Giapponi
- Sardinian: Istadu de su Giapone
- Sardinian: Istadu de su Giappone
- Saterfriesisch: Japan
- Scots: Japan
- Scots: State o Japan
- Scottish Gaelic: An Iapan
- Scottish Gaelic: An t-Seapan
- Scottish Gaelic: Iapan
- Serbian: JA
- Serbian: JAP
- Serbian: JP
- Serbian: JPN
- Serbian: Japan
- Serbian: jp
- Serbian: ЈАП
- Serbian: Јапан
- Serbian: Држава Јапан
- Serbian: Земља излазећег Сунца
- Serbian: Нипон-коку
- Serbian: Нипон
- Serbian: Нихон-коку
- Serbian: Нихон
- Serbo-Croatian: Japan
- Shan: မိူင်းၵျႃႇပၢၼ်ႇ
- Shona: Japan
- Shona: Japani
- Sichuan Yi: ꏝꀪ
- Sicilian: Giappuni
- Silesian: Japůńijo
- Sindhi: جاپان
- Sinhala: ජපානය
- Skolt Sami: Japaan
- Slovak: Japonsko
- Slovenian: Japonska
- Somali: Jabaan
- Somali: Jabbaan
- South Azerbaijani: ژاپون
- Southern Altai: Јопон
- Southern Altai: Япония
- Southern Sotho: Japane
- Spanish: Estado de Japón
- Spanish: Japón
- Sranan Tongo: Japan
- Sundanese: Jepang
- Swahili: Japani
- Swahili: Ujapani
- Swati: IJaphani
- Swedish: Japan
- Swedish: Japanska imperiet
- Swedish: Japanska kejsardömet
- Swedish: Kejsardömet Japan
- Swedish: Nihon
- Swedish: Nippon
- Swedish: Soluppgångens land
- Swedish: Staten Japan
- Swiss German: Japan
- Tagalog: Estado ng Hapon
- Tagalog: Hapon
- Tagalog: bansang unang sinisikatan ng araw
- Tahitian: Tāpōnē
- Tajik: Жопун
- Tajik: Япония
- Tajik: Ҷопон
- Talysh: Yaponiyə
- Tamil: சப்பான்
- Tamil: ஜப்பான்
- Tamil: யப்பான்
- Taroko: Japan
- Taroko: Tanah Tunux
- Tatar: Yaponiä
- Tatar: Япония
- Tatar: Япун иле
- Tatar: Япуния
- Tatar: Япуниә
- Tatar: Япунстан
- Telugu: జపాన్
- Tetum: Japaun
- Thai: Japan
- Thai: ญี่ปุ่น
- Thai: ประเทศญี่ปุ่น
- Tibetan: ཉི་ཧོང་
- Tibetan: ཉི་ཧོང་།
- Tibetan: རི་པིན།
- Tigrinya: Japan
- Tigrinya: ጃፓን
- Tok Pisin: Siapan
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Siapani
- Tosk Albanian: Japan
- Tsonga: Japan
- Tsonga: Japani
- Tswana: Japan
- Tulu: ಜಪಾನ್
- Tumbuka: Japan
- Tunisian Arabic: اليابان
- Turkish: Doğan Güneşin Ülkesi
- Turkish: Japonya
- Turkish: Japonya Devleti
- Turkmen: Ýaponiýa
- Tuvinian: Япония
- Twi: Yapan
- Tyap: Ja̱pan
- Udmurt: Япония
- Uighur: ياپونىيە
- Ukrainian: Японська Держава
- Ukrainian: Японія
- Upper Sorbian: Japanska
- Urdu: جاپان
- Urdu: نیہون
- Uzbek: Yaponiya
- Uzbek: Япония
- Venda: Japan
- Venetian: Giapòn
- Venetian: Japon
- Veps: Japonii
- Vietnamese: Nhật
- Vietnamese: Nhật Bản
- Vietnamese: Nhật Bổn
- Vlaams: Japan
- Vlax Romani: Japan
- Volapük: Yapän
- Võro: Jaapan
- Wallisian: Saponia
- Walloon: Djapon
- Waray (Philippines): Hapon
- Welsh: Japan
- Welsh: Siapan
- Western Armenian: Ճափոն
- Western Balochi: جاپان
- Western Frisian: Japan
- Western Mari: Япони
- Western Panjabi: جاپان
- Western Panjabi: جپان
- Wolof: Sapoŋ
- Wolof: Sàppoŋ
- Wu Chinese: 日本
- Xhosa: IJapani
- Yakut: Дьоппуон
- Yiddish: יאַפּאַן
- Yiddish: יאפאן
- Yoruba: Japan
- Yoruba: Japani
- Yue Chinese: 扶桑
- Yue Chinese: 扶桑國
- Yue Chinese: 日本
- Yue Chinese: 日本國
- Yue Chinese: 東洋
- Yue Chinese: 東瀛
- Zeeuws: Japan
- Zhuang: Nditbonj
- Zhuang: Nyiedbonj
- Zulu: IJapani
- Zulu: IJaphani
- Zulu: i-Japan
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- Nippan
- Sapɔŋ
- Xapon
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