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More than 57 million people
live in Japan's largest cities
Japan has 11 cities with populations of more than one million people. Almost 100 million Japanese, or 78 per cent of the country’s total population of 127 million, live in urban areas. The total population of Japan’s largest 100 cities amounts to 57.1 million or 45 per cent of all Japanese.Tokyo, with more than eight million inhabitants, is by far the largest Japanese city. (The Greater Tokyo Prefecture is estimated to have a population of some 12 million). In fact the number of residents in the Japanese capital is greater then the combined population of the next three largest cities Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya. Until 1868 Tokyo was called Edo. The name change took place when Tokyo became the country’s capital in place of Kyoto. The name Tokyo means 'eastern capital'.
With a population of 3.2 million, Yokohama, south of Tokyo, is Japan’s second largest city. It is the country’s largest port and a manufacturing and ship building centre.
Japan’s third-largest city, Osaka, is the country’s third most important seaport and home to many leading Japanese manufacturers. Kyoto, known worldwide as the city where the Kyoto treaty on the environment was signed, was the Japanese capital for more than 1,000 years until the government was moved to Tokyo in 1868. However, Kyoto is still Japan’s religious centre.
Japan's 100 largest cities
| Rank | City | Population |
| 1 | Tokyo | 8,164,000 |
| 2 | Yokohama | 3,220,000 |
| 3 | Osaka | 2,624,000 |
| 4 | Nagoya | 2,155,000 |
| 5 | Sapporo | 1,672,000 |
| 6 | Kobe | 1,477,000 |
| 7 | Kyoto | 1,461,000 |
| 8 | Fukuoka | 1,237,000 |
| 9 | Kawasaki | 1,174,000 |
| 10 | Hiroshima | 1,086,000 |
| 11 | Kitakyushu | 1,026,000 |
| 12 | Sendai | 918,000 |
| 13 | Chiba | 829,000 |
| 14 | Sakai | 808,000 |
| 15 | Okayama | 594,000 |
| 16 | Kumamoto | 579,000 |
| 17 | Kagoshima | 537,000 |
| 18 | Hamamatsu | 534,000 |
| 19 | Funabashi | 533,000 |
| 20 | Sagamihara | 532,000 |
| 21 | Higashi-Osaka | 518,000 |
| 22 | Amagasaki | 501,000 |
| 23 | Niigata | 486,000 |
| 24 | Shizuoka | 472,000 |
| 25 | Hachioji | 466,000 |
| 26 | Matsudo | 456,000 |
| 27 | Himeji | 454,000 |
| 28 | Nagasaki | 445,000 |
| 29 | Matsuyama | 444,000 |
| 30 | Kanazawa | 443,000 |
| 31 | Kawaguchi | 439,000 |
| 32 | Ichikawa | 437,000 |
| 33 | Yokosuka | 433,000 |
| 34 | Nishinomiya | 428,000 |
| 35 | Utsunomiya | 427,000 |
| 36 | Urawa | 418,000 |
| 37 | Kurashiki | 415,000 |
| 38 | Gifu | 411,000 |
| 39 | Toyonaka | 410,000 |
| 40 | Oita | 409,000 |
| 41 | Omiya | 404,000 |
| 42 | Wakayama | 397,000 |
| 43 | Hirakata | 391,000 |
| 44 | Fukuyama | 366,000 |
| 45 | Takatsuki | 360,000 |
| 46 | Asahikawa | 359,000 |
| 47 | Iwaki | 356,000 |
| 48 | Fujisawa | 351,000 |
| 49 | Nara | 350,000 |
| 50 | Machida | 349,000 |
| 51 | Nagano | 347,000 |
| 52 | Suita | 345,000 |
| 53 | Toyohashi | 338,000 |
| 54 | Toyota | 332,000 |
| 55 | Takamatsu | 330,000 |
| 56 | Toyama | 321,000 |
| 57 | Kochi | 317,000 |
| 58 | Koriyama | 315,000 |
| 59 | Hakodate | 307,000 |
| 60 | Okazaki | 307,000 |
| 61 | Kashiwa | 306,000 |
| 62 | Kawagoe | 305,000 |
| 63 | Naha | 304,000 |
| 64 | Tokorozawa | 303,000 |
| 65 | Akita | 302,000 |
| 66 | Aomori | 288,000 |
| 67 | Miyazaki | 287,000 |
| 68 | Maebashi | 286,000 |
| 69 | Koshigaya | 285,000 |
| 70 | Yao | 278,000 |
| 71 | Fukushima | 277,000 |
| 72 | Yokkaichi | 274,000 |
| 73 | Akashi | 271,000 |
| 74 | Kasugai | 267,000 |
| 75 | Tokushima | 264,000 |
| 76 | Shimonoseki | 263,000 |
| 77 | Ichinomiya | 262,000 |
| 78 | Otsu | 260,000 |
| 79 | Ichihara | 258,000 |
| 80 | Neyagawa | 257,000 |
| 81 | Ibaraki | 254,000 |
| 82 | Fukui | 253,000 |
| 83 | Yamagata | 249,000 |
| 84 | Hiratsuka | 246,000 |
| 85 | Sasebo | 245,000 |
| 86 | Shimizu | 242,000 |
| 87 | Hachinohe | 241,000 |
| 88 | Kakogawa | 240,000 |
| 89 | Takasaki | 236,000 |
| 90 | Morioka | 235,000 |
| 91 | Mito | 234,000 |
| 92 | Kurume | 228,000 |
| 93 | Fuji | 222,000 |
| 94 | Kure | 217,000 |
| 95 | Numazu | 211,000 |
| 96 | Fuchu | 209,000 |
| 97 | Soka | 206,000 |
| 98 | Kushiro | 205,000 |
| 99 | Hitachi | 202,000 |
| 100 | Takarazuka | 201,000 |
Mayors from 50 cities compete for the World Mayor Award 2008. Vote now for the mayor you believe most deserves to win. Vote now
AFRICAN FINALISTS
• Winstanley Bankole Johnson, Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Helen Zille, Cape Town, South Africa
• Amos Masondo, Johannesburg, South Africa
NORTH AMERICAN FINALISTS
• Stephen Mandel, Edmonton, Canada
• Sam Katz, Winnipeg, Canada
• Martin Chavez, Albuquerque, USA
• Michael B Coleman, Columbus, USA
• Mufi Hannemann, Honolulu, USA
• Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, USA
• Willie W Herenton, Memphis, USA
• Manny Diaz, Miami, USA
• Raymond Thomas Rybak, Minneapolis, USA
• Phil Gordon, Phoenix, USA
LATIN AMERICAN FINALISTS
• José Fogaça, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Sergio Fajardo Valderrama, Medellin, Colombia
• Juan Contino Aslán, Havana, Cuba
• Jaime Nebot, Guayaquil, Ecuador
• Paco Moncayo, Quito, Ecuador
• Salvador Gandara, Villa Nueva, Guatemala
• Antonio Astiazaran, Guaymas, Mexico
• Ernesto Gandara, Hermosillo, Mexico
• Ricardo Ehrlich, Montevideo, Uruguay
• Juan Barreto, Caracas, Venezuela
• Leopoldo Eduardo López, Chacao, Venezuela
ASIAN FINALISTS
• Han Zheng, Shanghai, China
• Zhang Guangning, Guangzhou, China
• C M Sheila Dikshit, Delhi, India
• Fauzi Bowo, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Tehran, Iran
• Tadatoshi Akiba, Hiroshima, Japan
• Hiroshi Nakada, Yokohama, Japan
• Marides Fernando, Marikina City, Philippines
• Vladimir Gorodets, Novosibirsk, Russia
• Park Wan-soo, Changwon City, South Korea
• Kadir Topbas, Istanbul, Turkey
EUROPEAN FINALISTS
• Patrick Janssens, Antwerp, Belgium
• Boiko Borisov, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Eleni Mavrou, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Bertrand Delanoë, Paris, France
• Pierre Albertini, Rouen, France
• Jens Böhrnsen, Bremen, Germany
• Ulrich Maly, Nürnberg, Germany
• Wolfgang Schuster, Stuttgart, Germany
• Kyriakos Virvidakis, Chania, Greece
• Sergio Cofferati, Bologna, Italy
• Walter Veltroni, Rome, Italy
• Rafal Dutkiewicz, Wroclaw, Poland
• Rosa Aguilar, Cordoba, Spain
• Göran Johansson, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Elmar Ledergerber, Zurich, Switzerland