Tokyo

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Tokyo (Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, "aestren caipital") is the hame tae the Japanese guvrenment an the emperor, makkin it the Caipital o Japan. It is the naition's maist populous urban area an aw (12 million fowk, or aboot 10 percent o the kintra's population, bides in Tokyo) an ane o the 47 prefectures o Japan.

[edit] Airt

Tokyo is locate in the Kanto region on the island o Honshu. Its centre is at 35°41' North, 139°46' Aest (35.68333, 139.7667), but its borders extends tae ootlyin islands in the Paceific Ocean, some sae hyne awa as 1,000 km sooth o the mainlaund.

[edit] Geography an admeenistrative diveesions

Tokyo is north-wast o Tokyo Bay, an is aboot 90 km aest-tae-wast an 25 km north-tae-sooth. It borders Chiba Prefecture tae the aest, Yamanashi Prefecture tae the wast, Kanagawa Prefecture tae the sooth, an Saitama Prefecture tae the north. Forby thon it conseests o islands in the Pacific Ocean directly sooth -- the Izu Islands is closest, while the Ogasawara Islands raxes ower 1,000 km awa fae mainland Japan.