قائمة العواصم في اليابان

A prefectural capital is a city where a prefectural government and assembly is located.

Japan

In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi (都道府県庁所在地, "seat of a prefectural government", singular: 都庁所在地,tochō shozaichi in the [Tōkyō]-to, 道庁所在地, dōchō shozaichi in the [Hokkai]-dō, 府庁所在地, fuchō shozaichi in -fu, 県庁所在地, kenchō shozaichi in -ken), but the term kento (県都, "prefectural capital") is also used (dōto (道都^?, in the -dō, but never "futo" or "toto")).

قائمة عواصم المحافظات اليابانية

العاصمة	Prefecture	Region	Island	Pop.¹	ISO	Status
Akita	قالب:Country data أكيتا	Tōhoku	هونشو	327,651	JP-05	Core city
Aomori	محافظة آوموري	Tōhoku	Honshū	304,657	JP-02	Core city
Chiba	محافظة تشيبا	Kantō	Honshū	943,568	JP-12	Designated city
Fukui	محافظة فوكوئي	Chūbu	Honshū	268,210	JP-18	Core city
Fukuoka	محافظة فوكوأوكا	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	1,434,650	JP-40	Designated city
Fukushima	محافظة فوكوشيما	Tōhoku	Honshū	288,602	JP-07	Core city
Gifu	محافظة جيفو	Chūbu	Honshū	411,753	JP-21	Core city
Hiroshima	محافظة هيروشيما	Chūgoku	Honshū	1,164,885	JP-34	Designated city
Kagoshima	محافظة كاگوشيما	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	604,268	JP-46	Core city
Kanazawa	محافظة إيشي‌كاوا	Chūbu	Honshū	455,952	JP-17	Core city
KobeKōbe	محافظة هيوجو	Kansai	Honshū	1,532,305	JP-28	Designated city
KochiKōchi	محافظة كوتشي	Shikoku	Shikoku	345,418	JP-39	Core city
KofuKōfu	محافظة ياماناشي	Chūbu	Honshū	198,757	JP-19	Core city
Kumamoto	محافظة كوماموتو	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	670,014	JP-43	Designated city
Kyōto	محافظة كيوتو	Kansai	Honshū	1,468,065	JP-26	Designated city
Maebashi	محافظة جونما	Kantō	Honshū	317,167	JP-10	Core city
Matsue	محافظة شيمانى	Chūgoku	Honshū	195,008	JP-32	Core city
Matsuyama	محافظة إهيمى	Shikoku	Shikoku	514,771	JP-38	Core city
Mito	محافظة ايباراكي	Kantō	Honshū	263,299	JP-08	Core city
Miyazaki	محافظة مي‌يازاكي	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	368,984	JP-45	Core city
Morioka	محافظة إي‌واته	Tōhoku	Honshū	298,959	JP-03	Core city
Nagano	محافظة ناجانو	Chūbu	Honshū	377,328	JP-20	Core city
Nagasaki	محافظة ناگاساكي	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	446,551	JP-42	Core city
Nagoya	محافظة آييتشي	Chūbu	Honshū	2,243,564	JP-23	Designated city
Naha	محافظة اوكيناوا	Kyūshū	Ryūkyū Islands	313,436	JP-47	Core city
Nara	محافظة نارا	Kansai	Honshū	366,863	JP-29	Core city
Niigata	محافظة نييجاتا	Chūbu	Honshū	811,613	JP-15	Designated city
OitaŌita	محافظة أوئيتا	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	467,617	JP-44	Core city
Okayama	محافظة أوكاياما	Chūgoku	Honshū	700,646	JP-33	Designated city
Ōsaka	محافظة اوساكا	Kansai	Honshū	2,649,601	JP-27	Designated city
OtsuŌtsu	محافظة شيجا	Kansai	Honshū	330,044	JP-25	Core city
Saga	محافظة ساگا	Kyūshū	Kyūshū	239,003	JP-41	Special city
Saitama	محافظة سايتاما	Kantō	Honshū	1,197,471	JP-11	Designated city
Sapporo	هوكايدو	Hokkaidō	Hokkaidō	1,896,704	JP-01	Designated city
Sendai	محافظة مي‌ياگي	Tōhoku	Honshū	1,029,576	JP-04	Designated city
Shinjuku^[1]	طوكيو	Kantō	Honshū	314,262	JP-13	Special wards
Shizuoka	محافظة شيزوأوكا	Chūbu	Honshū	709,888	JP-22	Designated city
Takamatsu	محافظة كاجاوا	Shikoku	Shikoku	417,671	JP-37	Core city
Tokushima	محافظة توكوشيما	Shikoku	Shikoku	265,248	JP-36	City
Tottori	محافظة توتوري	Chūgoku	Honshū	199,319	JP-31	Core city
Toyama	محافظة توياما	Chūbu	Honshū	420,584	JP-16	Core city
Tsu	محافظة ميه	Kansai	Honshū	287,849	JP-24	City
Utsunomiya	محافظة توتشيجي	Kantō	Honshū	508,114	JP-09	Core city
Wakayama	محافظة واكاياما	Kansai	Honshū	371,504	JP-30	Core city
Yamagata	محافظة ياماجاتا	Tōhoku	Honshū	254,724	JP-06	Core city
Yamaguchi	محافظة ياماجوتشي	Chūgoku	Honshū	191,714	JP-35	City
Yokohama	محافظة كاناجاوا	Kantō	Honshū	3,643,641	JP-14	Designated city

Notes: ¹ اعتبارا من 1 مايو 2008 (2008-05-01)^[تحديث]

Non-capitals which share a name with their prefecture

In most cases, a city that shares a name with its prefecture is a prefectural capital. However, there are some municipalities that are not capitals.

Capitals that are not the largest city/metropolitan area in their prefecture

Those in italics are prefectural capitals, or metropolitan areas of them.

محافظة فوكوشيما

1.	Iwaki	348,322	1.	Kōriyama Metropolitan Area	537,493
2.	Kōriyama	338,887	2.	Fukushima Metropolitan Area	412,353
3.	Fukushima	294,724	3.	Iwaki Metropolitan Area	365,864

محافظة جونما

1.	Takasaki	342,662	1.	Takasaki Metropolitan Area	532,271
2.	Maebashi	317,114	2.	Maebashi Metropolitan Area	458,996

محافظة ميه

1.	Yokkaichi	307,418	1.	Yokkaichi Metropolitan Area	606,071
2.	Tsu	288,874	2.	Tsu Metropolitan Area	308,375

محافظة شيزوأوكا

1.	Hamamatsu	812,692	1.	Shizuoka Metropolitan Area	999,360
2.	Shizuoka	709,772	2.	Hamamatsu Metropolitan Area	919,933

محافظة توتوري

1.	Tottori	199,263	1.	Yonago Metropolitan Area	252,387
2.	Yonago	148,234	2.	Tottori Metropolitan Area	249,067

محافظة ياماجوتشي

1.	Shimonoseki	284,693	1.	Shimonoseki Metropolitan Area	287,935
2.	Yamaguchi	191,740	2.	Ube Metropolitan Area	258,180
3.	Ube	175,334	3.	Yamaguchi Metropolitan Area	178,402

Notes:

City populations are as of July 2008.

Metropolitan area populations are as of 2000. (Urban Employment Areas)

References

^ 都庁の所在地 Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine Shinjuku is the location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo not having itself been a "municipality" since 1943.

[1] 都庁の所在地 Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine Shinjuku is the location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo not having itself been a "municipality" since 1943.

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