| Capital: Tokyo
Territory: Total: 377,835 sq. km., including Bonin Islands
(Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu
Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
Water: 3,091 sq. km.
Land: 374,744 sq. km.
Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific
Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula
Geographic coordinates: 36 00 N, 138 00 E
Coastline: 29,751 km
Population: 127,214,499 (July 2003 est.)
Religion: Observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16%
(including Christian 0.7%)
Languages: Japanese
Type of government: Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary
government.
Administrative divisions: 47 prefectures; Aichi, Akita,
Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gumma, Hiroshima,
Hokkaido, Hyogo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa,
Kochi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki,
Nara, Niigata, Oita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga,
Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama,
Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi.
Climate: Varies from tropical in south to cool temperate
in north.
Terrain: Mostly rugged and mountainous.
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