Japan
is an island country in East Asia, located in the
northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by
the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in
the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the
south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an
archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square
kilometers; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu,
Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital
and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama,
Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.
Japan is the eleventh-most populous country in the
world, as well as one of the most densely populated and
urbanized.
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