🇯🇵 Japan 47 administrative divisions
47 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 9,049 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- JP · JPN · 392
- Capital
- Tokyo
- Continent
- Asia
- Currency
- JPY — yen
- Calling code
- +81
- Internet domain
- .jp
- Divisions
- 47
- Cities and towns
- 9,049
Divisions
The 47 divisions of Japan
47 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi Prefecture | JP-23 | 1,691 | 7,521,192 |
| Tokyo | JP-13 | 1,475 | 14,264,798 |
| Kanagawa Prefecture | JP-14 | 1,426 | 9,216,009 |
| Chiba Prefecture | JP-12 | 507 | 6,279,002 |
| Kagoshima Prefecture | JP-46 | 439 | 1,586,435 |
| Saitama Prefecture | JP-11 | 309 | 7,343,100 |
| Fukuoka Prefecture | JP-40 | 252 | 5,108,038 |
| Hokkaido | JP-01 | 245 | 5,432,200 |
| Shizuoka Prefecture | JP-22 | 224 | 3,609,465 |
| Osaka Prefecture | JP-27 | 166 | 8,826,684 |
| Akita Prefecture | JP-05 | 139 | 946,380 |
| Iwate Prefecture | JP-03 | 126 | 1,205,698 |
| Aomori Prefecture | JP-02 | 114 | 1,232,303 |
| Nagano Prefecture | JP-20 | 113 | 2,024,073 |
| Kyoto Prefecture | JP-26 | 102 | 2,563,192 |
| Niigata Prefecture | JP-15 | 100 | 2,192,319 |
| Okinawa Prefecture | JP-47 | 93 | 1,460,652 |
| Hyogo Prefecture | JP-28 | 92 | 5,453,392 |
| Miyagi Prefecture | JP-04 | 84 | 2,288,456 |
| Oita Prefecture | JP-44 | 78 | 1,121,589 |
| Ibaraki Prefecture | JP-08 | 76 | 2,862,372 |
| Fukushima Prefecture | JP-07 | 72 | 1,825,325 |
| Shiga Prefecture | JP-25 | 72 | 1,411,168 |
| Gunma Prefecture | JP-10 | 68 | 1,934,920 |
| Mie Prefecture | JP-24 | 68 | 1,768,632 |
| Nara Prefecture | JP-29 | 68 | 1,319,305 |
| Kumamoto Prefecture | JP-43 | 63 | 1,732,644 |
| Okayama Prefecture | JP-33 | 61 | 1,878,884 |
| Gifu Prefecture | JP-21 | 58 | 1,975,397 |
| Tochigi Prefecture | JP-09 | 57 | 1,927,754 |
| Hiroshima Prefecture | JP-34 | 49 | 2,790,804 |
| Kochi Prefecture | JP-39 | 46 | 688,870 |
| Ishikawa Prefecture | JP-17 | 44 | 1,132,497 |
| Ehime Prefecture | JP-38 | 43 | 1,321,580 |
| Tokushima Prefecture | JP-36 | 39 | 721,721 |
| Wakayama Prefecture | JP-30 | 39 | 910,687 |
| Yamanashi Prefecture | JP-19 | 38 | 803,963 |
| Kagawa Prefecture | JP-37 | 37 | 949,358 |
| Saga Prefecture | JP-41 | 36 | 809,824 |
| Yamagata Prefecture | JP-06 | 36 | 1,063,231 |
| Miyazaki Prefecture | JP-45 | 34 | 1,061,032 |
| Nagasaki Prefecture | JP-42 | 32 | 1,307,309 |
| Toyama Prefecture | JP-16 | 29 | 1,031,262 |
| Tottori Prefecture | JP-31 | 26 | 549,925 |
| Yamaguchi Prefecture | JP-35 | 26 | 1,336,522 |
| Fukui Prefecture | JP-18 | 23 | 764,533 |
| Shimane Prefecture | JP-32 | 22 | 664,539 |
A further 12 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Japan
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/JP.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/JP/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.