Japan
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- JP
- ISO alpha-3
- JPN
- ISO numeric
- 392
- FIPS 10-4
- JA
- GeoNames ID
- 1861060
Key facts
- Capital
- Tokyo
- Area
- 377,835 km²
- Population
- 126,529,100
- Currency
- Yen (JPY)
- Calling code
- +81
- Top-level domain
- .jp
- Official languages
- ja
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 35.68536
- Longitude
- 139.75309
- Min latitude
- 24.212103583000044
- Min longitude
- 122.93816165500004
- Max latitude
- 45.520412502000056
- Max longitude
- 153.98560631600003
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/JP?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 377835,
"capital": "Tokyo",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "JPY",
"iso3_code": "JPN",
"iso_code": "JP",
"name": "Japan",
"population": 126529100
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/JP/regions/v1/cities?country=JP/v1/postal-codes?country=JP/v1/timezones?country=JP
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- اليابان
- Chinese
- 日本
- English
- Japan
- French
- Japon
- German
- Japan
- Hindi
- जापान
- Italian
- Giappone
- Japanese
- 日本
- Korean
- 일본
- Portuguese
- Japão
- Russian
- Япония
- Spanish
- Japón
- Total language variants
- 245
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | UTC+09:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ###-####
- Pattern
^\d{3}-\d{4}$
First-level administrative regions
- Tokyo Prefecture
- Kanagawa
- Ōsaka-fu
- Aichi-ken
- Saitama-ken
- Chiba-ken
- Hyōgo
- Hokkaido
- Fukuoka Prefecture
- Shizuoka
- Ibaraki
- Hiroshima-ken
- Kyoto Prefecture
- Miyagi-ken
- Niigata-ken
- Nagano-ken
- Gifu
- Tochigi
- Gunma-ken
- Okayama-ken
- Fukushima-ken
- Mie-ken
- Kumamoto
- Kagoshima-ken
24 of 47 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Tokyo | 9,733,276 |
| Yokohama | 3,777,491 |
| Osaka | 2,753,862 |
| Nagoya | 2,332,176 |
| Sapporo | 1,973,832 |
| Fukuoka | 1,612,392 |
| Kawasaki | 1,538,262 |
| Kobe | 1,525,152 |
| Kyoto | 1,463,723 |
| Saitama | 1,324,854 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 50,801
- First-level regions
- 47
- Postal codes
- 146,883
- Name languages
- 245
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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