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Short name
Japan
Local names
Nihon-koku/Nippon-koku (long)
Nihon/Nippon (short)
Nihon/Nippon (short)
Nationality
Japanese (singular and plural) (noun) Nihon/Nippon (adjective)
Languages spoken
Japanese
Capital
Tokyo
Government type
constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
Population
127,288,416 ranked 12, (data 2008)
Geography
strategic location in northeast Asia. The lowest point is Hachiro-gata -4 m.
Coastline
Coastline 29,751 km.
Land borders
0km,
Administrative divisions
47 prefectures; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Hyogo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kochi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Oita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
Independence
660 B.C. (traditional date of the founding of the nation by Emperor JIMMU; first recognized by Emperor Meiji in 1873)