Jokes aside, it's fascinating as a Brit to think that the greater area of one city would take up most of Wales. I can't imagine living that far away from central Tokyo and still being in greater Tokyo.
Tokyo is massive, but the outline in the image is really the region of Kantō, with several cities and rural areas. It's like saying greater London is the whole of the south east
Tokyo has about 9 mil people. However the biggest 5 cities account for about 20 mil people, which is about 16% of the population. In comparison, the top 5 cities in the US have about 0.6% of the population.
Almost everyone lives in Tokyo or cities west of it. Apart from Sapporo and Sendai, the biggest city north of Tokyo has 500,000 people (and even that's only about 100 km to the north).
Different countries define "greater city" in some fairly different ways.
Greater NYC, for example, contains like a dozen smaller satellite cities and their suburbs. It includes some of the largest cities in both New Jersy and Connecticut.
It takes me an hour and a half to commute to work by express train in my metropolitan area. The train only makes 5 stops.
That’s why tourists from outside the UK plan activities all over the island in a 3-day period; while many locals may never have traveled more than a few kilometres from home except to vacation in Spain, spending 3-4 hours traveling between points of interest in a day is standard practice in many parts of the world.
Sounds horrible. I don't travel for these reasons. Stress free is what I am for, and I have never been happy when vacationing out of my province (and sometimes within, depending).
Meanwhile my partner has been to China, Japan and various other places while we've been together. She doesn't even try to get me to go with her anymore, bless her heart.
I live in the U.S. and I didn't really understand how big a state or a city could be until I moved to California and entered Los Angeles county to go to my apartment in North Hollywood. And it just kept going... and going... and going...
Reminds me of that one occasion where there was a natural disaster event in Japan.
Someone commented that Japan must be lying because they checked Google Maps street view from the areas that were hammered by the nature and didn't see anything broken.
No, it shows "Greater London" which is basically just London, but is called that to distinguish it from "The City of London" which is 1mi square in the centre of Greater London.
This Greater Tokyo Area covers whole prefectures outside of Tokyo. I personally consider 首都圏 to be prefectures surrounding Tokyo, or "capital region" is more of an apt term.
Since Narita in Chiba is considered a Tokyo Airport, a more fair comparison for London would be from Lydd Airport - London Ashford to London Luton Airport to London Stansted Airport.
Tokyo became a city, and the seat of the shogunate, in 1603. (Before that it was a fishing village in Musashi Province.) It became the capital of Japan in 1868, and has stayed so ever since. It was never a city-state.
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If Tokyo was in Japan, why is it written in English letters? Checkmate atheist
I bet you use default settings and auto-update everything.
I don't. Checkmate atheist
Jokes aside, it's fascinating as a Brit to think that the greater area of one city would take up most of Wales. I can't imagine living that far away from central Tokyo and still being in greater Tokyo.
Tokyo is massive, but the outline in the image is really the region of Kantō, with several cities and rural areas. It's like saying greater London is the whole of the south east
I have heard that about a third of Japan's population is in Tokyo. Is that the very broad definition?
Japan in total is about 125 million people.
Tokyo itself is only about 14 million; greater Tokyo is about 40 million.
Tokyo has about 9 mil people. However the biggest 5 cities account for about 20 mil people, which is about 16% of the population. In comparison, the top 5 cities in the US have about 0.6% of the population.
Almost everyone lives in Tokyo or cities west of it. Apart from Sapporo and Sendai, the biggest city north of Tokyo has 500,000 people (and even that's only about 100 km to the north).
Different countries define "greater city" in some fairly different ways.
Greater NYC, for example, contains like a dozen smaller satellite cities and their suburbs. It includes some of the largest cities in both New Jersy and Connecticut.
Greater Tokyo is pretty similar.
Meanwhile, the City of London has a population of 8618.
Yeah, municipal boundaries are sometimes weird for historical reasons.
It takes me an hour and a half to commute to work by express train in my metropolitan area. The train only makes 5 stops.
That’s why tourists from outside the UK plan activities all over the island in a 3-day period; while many locals may never have traveled more than a few kilometres from home except to vacation in Spain, spending 3-4 hours traveling between points of interest in a day is standard practice in many parts of the world.
Yeah here in America our biggest and third biggest cities can be hit up in one short 16 hour drive. Second biggest will add a few days
Sounds horrible. I don't travel for these reasons. Stress free is what I am for, and I have never been happy when vacationing out of my province (and sometimes within, depending).
Meanwhile my partner has been to China, Japan and various other places while we've been together. She doesn't even try to get me to go with her anymore, bless her heart.
I live in one about 4,000 km2. Given that across 2 counties and not all just most of it
Yeah that's just another thing stolen by the British Museum
Wait until they realize that 1/5 of US states are larger than the entire UK.
I live in the U.S. and I didn't really understand how big a state or a city could be until I moved to California and entered Los Angeles county to go to my apartment in North Hollywood. And it just kept going... and going... and going...
I think that happens when people ask how big a city could be instead of SHOULD be
I thought I was gonna die of old age the one and only time I ever drove across Kansas.
That was Oklahoma for me. I was 7. I might still be driving through it today.
Flying into Los Angeles was the most surreal experience of my life. It just goes on and on and on ...
Reminds me of that one occasion where there was a natural disaster event in Japan.
Someone commented that Japan must be lying because they checked Google Maps street view from the areas that were hammered by the nature and didn't see anything broken.
Apparently I live in Tokyo. I suppose it's better than living in London
Isn't everywhere better than living in London?
Heyoo!
You guys know that tiny island down the bottom of earth by Australia.... Yeah that's bigger than the uk
You mean Austria?
Antarctica?
Yes. It is indeed big. Good eye, OP.
Going by what is included in Greater Tokyo, we can tell that Tokyo proper is about the same size as London, probably a bit larger.
It looks like the London greater area is also included on this map though?
No, it shows "Greater London" which is basically just London, but is called that to distinguish it from "The City of London" which is 1mi square in the centre of Greater London.
Yeah I think this would be less impressive if it included an outline of our own sprawling metropolis.
This Greater Tokyo Area covers whole prefectures outside of Tokyo. I personally consider 首都圏 to be prefectures surrounding Tokyo, or "capital region" is more of an apt term.
Since Narita in Chiba is considered a Tokyo Airport, a more fair comparison for London would be from Lydd Airport - London Ashford to London Luton Airport to London Stansted Airport.
It was a city state, an empire of it's own for a very long time.
Tokyo? Hasn't the Kanto region been part of Japan for over a millenium?
Yes, I didn't mean last Tuesday.
Tokyo became a city, and the seat of the shogunate, in 1603. (Before that it was a fishing village in Musashi Province.) It became the capital of Japan in 1868, and has stayed so ever since. It was never a city-state.
Fascinating meme, but untrue. England is in Tokyo, not Japan, while I'm in your mom.
When did they move Tokyo to Japan?