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Map of Japan (de facto borders)Japan highlighted among its neighbouring countries, with borders drawn as Natural Earth shows them: according to who controls the territory. Hover a neighbour to see its name.Scale at the country's latitude500 km

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Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. Its capital and largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 38 million inhabitants as of 2016.

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The description on this page is shortened from “Japan” on Wikipedia, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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