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Aichi Prefecture Akita Prefecture Aomori Prefecture Chiba Prefecture Ehime Prefecture Fukuoka Prefecture Fukushima Prefecture Gifu Prefecture Gunma Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture Hokkaido Hyōgo Prefecture Ishikawa Prefecture Kagawa Prefecture Kagoshima Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Kumamoto Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture Kōchi Prefecture Mie Prefecture Miyazaki Prefecture Nagano Prefecture Nara Prefecture Niigata Prefecture Okayama Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Saitama Prefecture Shiga Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Tochigi Prefecture Tokyo Toyama Prefecture Wakayama Prefecture Ōita Prefecture
Why these 20
City population from Wikidata's preferred figure (usually the latest census or official estimate). City limits differ a lot between countries, so compare within a country first.
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Tokyo
東京都
capital and largest city of Japan
14,264,798
Also in: #1 most populous states, provinces and regions (Japan)
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Tokyo
東京
special wards in the eastern part of Tokyo Metropolis in Japan, that used to form a single city
9,640,742
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How it is measured
Wikidata: cities and big cities with 300,000 people or more.
References
- Wikidata query: cities by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-19 23:23 UTC.
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Photo: Shinjuku skyline, Tokyo - Sony A7R (11831328835) by Luke Ma from Taipei, Taiwan ROC, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures in rows: Wikimedia Commons, GitHub and the linked pages.