Hello friends, welcome to Japan. It is the island state in the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the Japanese archipelago, which, according to the calculations of the country’s authorities, consists of 6852 islands. The four largest islands – Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, make up over 95% of the total area of the archipelago. Most of the islands are mountainous, many are volcanic. The country has no land borders. By sea, Japan borders on Russia, China and Korea. The area of Japan is 377,976 km². The highest point in Japan is Fujiyama volcano, its height is 3776 meters. Japan is covered with highlands and low and medium-altitude mountains, they make up over 75% of the country’s territory. The lowlands are located in separate areas along the coasts of the country. Forests cover over 66% of the country.
The flora of Japan has more than 700 species of trees and shrubs and about 3,000 species of herbs. The soils of Japan are poorly suitable for agriculture without their preliminary processing. Podzolic and meadow-marsh soils are common in the north of the country, brown forest soils in the southern part, and yellow and red soils in the subtropics and tropics.
In the mountains, the soils are predominantly gravelly, often with inclusions of volcanic ash; on the plains, there are cultivated alluvial soils. Due to the island isolation of Japan, the animal world is somewhat depleted. The fauna of Japan includes 270 species of mammals, about 800 species of birds and 110 species of reptiles. Over 600 species of fish and more than 1,000 species of mollusks live in the seas surrounding the country.
The capital of Japan is the city of Tokyo. Major cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kobe, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama. Japan is divided into 47 top-level administrative divisions – prefectures. Each prefecture is governed by a prefect and has its own legislative and administrative apparatus.
The national currency is the Japanese Yen, telephone code +81, time zone UTC+9. Car traffic on the left side. Japan is the great economic power, it ranks third in the world in terms of nominal GDP. It is also the fourth largest exporter and the sixth largest importer in the world. Japan ranks twelfth in the world in terms of living standards. Japan has one of the highest life expectancies, at 85.3 years in 2017.
Japan is a member of the G7 and APEC, and is also regularly elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Japan is the only country in the world against which nuclear weapons have been used. In 2009, Japan’s economy was second only to the United States in terms of nominal GDP, which is over $5 trillion.
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