NXS-GRX-JPN · Eastern Asia · Regions

Japan: 47 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 47 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-JPN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO JPN / JPStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
47
first-level units
1,765
units at 2 levels
116,366,199
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief
01Map

Japan by province, state and territory

47 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 47 first-level units of Japan
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk values when released
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Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Japan

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
47 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
1,718 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · each with its own page
03Units

All 47 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Aichi PrefectureJP-237,319,0617,286,3425,1711,4156.3%2,184,104
AkitaJP-05924,293860,17511,629790.8%179,385
AomoriJP-021,146,1751,092,4069,6311191%243,823
ChibaJP-125,435,1695,787,0605,1621,0534.7%1,518,027
Ehime PrefectureJP-381,194,9391,140,4945,6642111%176,579
Fukui PrefectureJP-18755,814735,7294,1901800.6%239,138
Fukuoka PrefectureJP-404,645,7394,726,3834,9849324%1,373,623
FukushimaJP-071,864,7331,701,91413,7711351.6%66,258
Gifu PrefectureJP-212,046,5411,936,15510,6211931.8%438,690
GunmaJP-101,792,2471,892,7126,3612821.5%0
HiroshimaJP-342,504,8652,634,1608,4642962.2%408,401
HokkaidoJP-015,009,0164,836,37978,290644.3%1,060,045
Hyogo PrefectureJP-284,605,1174,688,1038,3945494%1,007,640
IbarakiJP-082,610,2952,709,7136,0974282.2%462,595
Ishikawa PrefectureJP-171,092,2541,068,2214,1862610.9%324,588
IwateJP-031,174,0971,103,25415,263771%12,750
Kagawa PrefectureJP-37806,003809,8601,8624330.7%151,682
Kagoshima PrefectureJP-461,346,1771,262,0829,1891461.2%175,179
KanagawaJP-149,347,5018,867,4842,4203,8638%1,286,429
Kochi PrefectureJP-39633,400597,6297,105890.5%111,428
KumamotoJP-431,663,0921,621,8307,4022251.4%351,254
Kyoto PrefectureJP-262,397,5622,580,7064,5995212.1%52,333
Mie PrefectureJP-241,558,2501,663,0565,7722701.3%326,045
MiyagiJP-042,448,2362,208,1607,2753372.1%650,392
Miyazaki PrefectureJP-451,046,256991,3127,7401350.9%252,968
NaganoJP-202,069,8791,971,21413,5521531.8%0
Nagasaki PrefectureJP-421,105,9221,087,4154,0662721%70,074
Nara PrefectureJP-291,107,5971,181,3923,6923001%0
NiigataJP-152,034,4491,935,85612,5751621.7%638,104
OitaJP-44996,300966,9706,3401570.9%153,071
Okayama PrefectureJP-331,808,3901,733,6887,1042551.6%601,648
Okinawa PrefectureJP-47998,8001,038,1282,2654410.9%89,799
Osaka PrefectureJP-277,751,4838,546,4141,9124,0546.7%3,339,129
Saga PrefectureJP-41847,270822,6242,4413470.7%271,583
SaitamaJP-116,930,4517,236,2123,7971,8256%2,398,106
ShigaJP-251,534,3921,397,4354,0173821.3%0
ShimaneJP-32601,953609,6526,704900.5%141,897
ShizuokaJP-221,961,5593,404,8817,7762521.7%274,815
TochigiJP-091,808,0691,891,3246,4062821.6%497
Tokushima PrefectureJP-36689,774620,0424,1431660.6%314,696
TokyoJP-1313,611,59614,429,5512,1896,21811.7%2,652,010
Tottori PrefectureJP-31495,686472,6053,5071410.4%171,301
ToyamaJP-16970,028948,8314,2522280.8%264,720
Wakayama PrefectureJP-30650,162744,2104,7231380.6%170,714
YamagataJP-061,062,327997,0429,3211140.9%100,986
YamaguchiJP-351,174,8741,107,9596,1001931%202,993
YamanashiJP-19788,406750,5284,4701760.7%0
04Risk

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Japan publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen JPN ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen JPN ADM2, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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