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 Japan's Largest Cities
This list includes Japan's cities with populations over one million as of 1994 national estimates.
 
City Population (in millions)
   
Tokyo 8.02 (11.93 in metropolitan area)
Yokohama 3.30
Osaka 2.57
Nagoya 2.15
Sapporo 1.74
Kobe 1.52
Kyoto 1.45
Fukuoka 1.28
Kawasaki 1.20
Hiroshima 1.11
Kitakyushu 1.02
 
Source: United Nations Statistics Division website. Japanese cities: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/demog/392.htm. These figures are from the 1994 national estimate. The lone exception is the figure for metropolitan Tokyo which is from 1989.

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Last Updated on 7/13/98
By Clayton Dube