Chūkyō ( 中京圏 , Chūkyō-ken ) , or the Chūkyō region ( 中京地方 , Chūkyō-chihō ) , is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the " Chūkyō ", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture . The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region . The population of 10,110,000 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers. Nevertheless, like most of Japan's major metro areas, the core of it lies on a fertile alluvial plain , in this case, the Nōbi Plain .
7-557: It is among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the world, and is the third most populous metropolitan area in Japan (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto ), containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the world's 22nd-largest metro area economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to
14-405: A single metropolitan area is defined rather than independently. The metropolitan areas written in bold are the 11 major metropolitan areas of Japan. The metropolitan areas written in bold are the 11 major metropolitan areas of Japan. Changes from 2005 census The following changes to metropolitan area definitions were made in the 2010 Census report. The metropolitan areas written in bold are
21-804: A study by the Brookings Institution . The GDP of Greater Nagoya, Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area , was US$ 256.3 billion in 2010. The metropolitan area stretches beyond the central city of Nagoya to other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as neighboring Gifu and Mie prefectures . There are at least 38 passenger train lines in the Greater Nagoya area. JR runs six, Nagoya Subway seven, Meitetsu 18, Kintetsu four, and five other operators one each. Per Japanese census data, and , Chūkyō metropolitan area, also known as greater Nagoya, has had continuous population growth. The area defined by
28-772: Is a list of metropolitan areas ( 都市圏 , toshiken ) in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo . The region containing most of the people in Japan between Tokyo and Fukuoka is often called the Taiheiyō Belt . The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) defines a metropolitan area as one or more central cities and its associated outlying municipalities. To qualify as an outlying municipality,
35-629: The Chukyo Area Person-Trip Survey , a study of commuter movement, is slightly different from the census definition. It includes southern Aichi and areas immediately north of Gifu City. It adds two cities in Aichi Prefecture ( Tahara and Toyohashi ) and two cities in Gifu Prefecture ( Mino and Seki ). Additionally, it excludes two cities in Gifu Prefecture ( Ena and Nakatsugawa ). List of metropolitan areas in Japan This
42-504: The 8 major metropolitan areas of Japan. Urban Employment Area is another definition of metropolitan areas, defined by the Center for Spatial Information Service, the University of Tokyo . The Center for Spatial Information Service, the University of Tokyo has defined 100 metropolitan employment areas (MEAs) and 122 micropolitan employment areas (McEAs) for Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry defined 233 areas for
49-584: The municipality must have at least 1.5% of its resident population aged 15 and above commuting to school or work into one of the central cities. To qualify as a central city, a city must either be a designated city of any population or a non-designated city with a city proper population of at least 500,000. Metropolitan areas of designated cities are defined as "major metropolitan areas" (大都市圏) while those of non-designated cities are simply "metropolitan areas" (都市圏). If multiple central cities are close enough such that their outlying cities overlap, they are combined and
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