Place:Kantō, Japan

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NameKantō
Alt namesKantō-chihōsource: Wikipedia
Kantosource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Kantōsource: Family History Library Catalog
Kantōsource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) XXII, 293
Kantō Districtsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Kantō-chihōsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeRegion
Coordinates36.25°N 139.5°E
Located inJapan     (1905 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. In a common definition, the region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. Slightly more than 45 percent of the land area within its boundaries is the Kanto Plain. The rest consists of the hills and mountains that form land borders with other regions of Japan.

As the Kanto region contains Tokyo, the capital and largest city of Japan, the region is considered the center of Japan's politics and economy. According to the official census on October 1, 2010, by the Japan Statistics Bureau, the population was 42,607,376, amounting to approximately one third of the total population of Japan.

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