Destination Japan, a Nations Online country profile of the “Land of the Rising Sun,” a nation that occupies a chain of islands in East Asia in the North Pacific Ocean roughly parallel with the eastern coast of Asia’s mainland.
The archipelago stretches from south of the Russian Sakhalin Island in the north to near Taiwan in the southwest. Japan’s main islands are (from north to south) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. The country shares maritime borders with China, North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, Russia, and Taiwan.
Japan is spread over 6000 islands and has a surface area of 377,915 km², making it slightly larger than Germany or somewhat smaller than the US state of California.
The country has a slowly shrinking population, and the proportion of older people is rising. In 2020, 126 million people live in Japan. The national capital and largest city is Tokyo. Other major cities are Fukuoka, Fukushima, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yokohama. The official language is Japanese.
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