Interesting Information About Tokyo.
1)Tokyo is Japan's capital and the country's largest city.
2)The metropolis of Tokyo consists of 23 city wards (ku), 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages, including the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, several small Pacific Islands in the south of Japan's main island Honshu.
3)The 23 city wards (ku) are the center of Tokyo and make up about one third of the metropolis' area, while housing roughly eight of Tokyo's approximately twelve million residents.
4)Prior to 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo.
5)It is the second largest in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 7,800 km² (3,000 mi²).
6)This area has the largest metropolitan economy in the world. One Metropolis, Three Prefectures, one of the definitions of the Greater Tokyo Area, had a total GDP (nominal) of approximately US$1.5 trillion (164 trillion Yen[2] in 2005.
7)The landscape is relatively flat compared to most of Japan, most of it comprising low hills.
8)The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million.
9)Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo.
10)Land reclamation projects in Tokyo have also been going on for centuries.
1)Tokyo is Japan's capital and the country's largest city.
2)The metropolis of Tokyo consists of 23 city wards (ku), 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages, including the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, several small Pacific Islands in the south of Japan's main island Honshu.
3)The 23 city wards (ku) are the center of Tokyo and make up about one third of the metropolis' area, while housing roughly eight of Tokyo's approximately twelve million residents.
4)Prior to 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo.
5)It is the second largest in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 7,800 km² (3,000 mi²).
6)This area has the largest metropolitan economy in the world. One Metropolis, Three Prefectures, one of the definitions of the Greater Tokyo Area, had a total GDP (nominal) of approximately US$1.5 trillion (164 trillion Yen[2] in 2005.
7)The landscape is relatively flat compared to most of Japan, most of it comprising low hills.
8)The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million.
9)Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo.
10)Land reclamation projects in Tokyo have also been going on for centuries.
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