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Honshu
Native name:

Honshu
Honshu
Geography
Location
East Asia
Archipelago
Japanese archipelago
Area
225,800km2 (87,200sqmi)
Area rank
7th
Length
1,300km (810mi)
Width
50230km (31143mi)
Coastline
5,450km (3,386mi)
Highestelevation
3,776m (12,388ft)
Highestpoint
Mount Fuji
Administration
Japan
Prefectures
Thoku
[show]
Kant
[show]
Chbu
[show]
Kansai
[show]
Chgoku
[show]
Largest settlement
 Tokyo (pop.13,617,445)
Demographics
Population
103,000,000 (2005 Census)
Pop. density
447/km2 (1,158/sqmi)
Ethnic groups
Japanese
Honshu ( Honsh?, "Main Island" or "Main Province") ([ho](
listen)) is the largest and most populous island of Japan,[1] located south of
Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea,
and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the
Sea of Japan, which lies to its north and west, from the North Pacific Ocean
to its south and east. It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the
second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java.[2][3]
Honshu had a population of 103 million as of 2005,[citation needed] mostly
concentrated in the coastal lowlands, notably in the Kant plain where 25% of
the total population resides in the Greater Tokyo Area.[citation needed] As the
historical center of Japanese culture and political power,[citation needed] the island
includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyoto, Nara, and
Kamakura. Much of the island's southern shore forms part of the Taiheiy
Belt, a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese islands.
Most of Japan's industry is located in a belt running along Honshu's southern
coast, from Tokyo to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Hiroshima;[citation needed]
by contrast, the economy along the northwestern Sea of Japan coast is
largely based on fishing and agriculture.[4] The island is linked to the other
three major Japanese islands by a number of bridges and tunnels. Its climate
is humid and mild.

Contents [hide]
1
Geography
1.1
Extreme points
1.2
Bridges and tunnels
2
Administrative regions and prefectures
3
Natural features
3.1
Agriculture
3.2
Minerals
 4
See also
5
References
Geography[edit]
The island is roughly 1,300km (810mi) long and ranges from 50 to 230km
(31 to 143mi) wide, and its total area is 225,800km2 (87,200sqmi), 60% of
the total area of Japan,[citation needed] making it slightly larger than Great Britain.[5]
Its land area has been increasing with land reclamation and coastal uplift in
the north, but global sea level rise has diminished these effects.[citation needed]
Honshu has 5,450 kilometres (3,386mi) of coastline.[1]
Mountainous and volcanic, Honshu experiences frequent earthquakes (the
Great Kant earthquake heavily damaged Tokyo in September 1923, and the
earthquake of March 2011 moved the northeastern part of the island by
varying amounts of as much as 5.3m (17ft)[6][7] while causing devastating
tsunamis). The highest peak is the active volcano Mount Fuji at 3,776m
(12,388ft), which makes Honshu the world's 7th highest island. There are
many rivers, including the Shinano River, Japan's longest. The Japanese Alps
run the length of Honshu, dividing the northwestern (Sea of Japan) shore
from the southeastern (Pacific or Inland Sea) shore; the climate is generally
humid subtropical in the southern and coastal parts of the island and humid
continental in the northern and inland portions.
Extreme points[edit]
The northernmost point on Honshu is the tip of the Shimokita Peninsula in
ma, Aomori; Cape Kure lies at the southern extreme in Kushimoto,
Wakayama. The island's eastern extremity is Todogasaki in Miyako, Iwate,
and its western one is Bishanohana in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. Honshu
spans more than eight degrees of latitude and 11 degrees of longitude.[citation
needed]

Bridges and tunnels[edit]

Honshu is connected to the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku by
tunnels or bridges. Three bridge systems have been built across the islands
of the Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku (Akashi Kaiky Bridge and
the naruto Bridge; Shin-Onomichi Bridge, Innoshima Bridge, Ikuchi Bridge,
Tatara Bridge, mishima Bridge, Hakatashima Bridge, and the Kurushima-
Kaiky Bridge; Shimotsui-Seto Bridge, Hitsuishijima Bridge, Iwakurojima
Bridge, Yoshima Bridge, Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge, and the Minami Bisan-Seto
Bridge), the Seikan Tunnel connects Honshu with Hokkaido, and the
Kanmonkyo Bridge and Kanmon Tunnel connects Honshu with Kyushu.[citation
needed]

Administrative regions and prefectures[edit]

The island is divided into five nominal regions and contains 34 prefectures,
including metropolitan Tokyo. Administratively, some smaller islands are
included within these prefectures, notably including the Ogasawara Islands,
Sado Island, Izu shima, and Awaji Island.[citation needed]
The regions are:
Thoku Aomori Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Akita
Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture
Kant Ibaraki Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture,
Saitama Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture
Chbu Niigata Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture,
Fukui Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Gifu
Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Aichi Prefecture
Kansai Mie Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka
Prefecture, Hygo Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture
Chgoku region Tottori Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture, Okayama
Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Natural features[edit]
Agriculture[edit]
Most of Japan's tea and silk is from Honshu. Fruits, vegetables, grains, rice
and cotton are grown in Honshu.[8] Niigata is noted as an important producer
of rice. The Kant and Nbi plains produce rice and vegetables. Yamanashi is
a major fruit-growing area, and Aomori is famous for its apples.[citation needed] Rare
species of the lichen genus Menegazzia are found only in Honshu.[9]
Minerals[edit]
Yields of zinc, copper, and oil have been found on Honshu.[8]
See also[edit]
Japan portal

Islands portal
Kyushu
Shikoku
Hokkaido
References[edit]

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Honshu.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Honshu.
1 ^ Jump up to:
a b "Honshu". Encyclopdia Britannica. Retrieved 19 February 2016.

2 Jump up
^ Japan Civil Registry Database 2013
3 Jump up
^ See Japan Census of 2000; The editors of List of islands by population
appear to have used similar data from the relevant statistics bureaux, and
totalled up the various administrative districts that make up each island, and
then done the same for less populous islands. An editor of this article has not
repeated that work. Therefore this plausible and eminently reasonable
ranking is posted as unsourced common knowledge.
4 Jump up
^ Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
5 Jump up
^ "Islands By Land Area". Islands.unep.ch. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
6 Jump up
^ "Map of Horizontal Land Movement caused by 2011/3/11 M9.0 earthquake"
(PDF) (in Japanese). Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. March 19,
2011. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
7 Jump up
^ "Quake shifted Japan by over two meters". Deutsche Welle. March 14,
2011. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
8 ^ Jump up to:
a b "Honshu". infoplease.com. 2012. Retrieved 2014-11-23.

9 Jump up
^ Bjerke JW (2004). "Revision of the lichen genus Menegazzia in Japan,
including two new species". The Lichenologist. 36 (1): 1525. doi:10.1017/
S0024282904013878. ISSN0024-2829.
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Regions and administrative divisions of Japan

Regions
Hokkaido Thoku Kant
Nanp Islands Chbu Hokuriku Kshin'etsu Shin'etsu Tkai Kansai Chgoku San'in
San'y Shikoku Kyushu Northern Southern Okinawa
 47 Prefectures

Hokkaido
Hokkaido

Thoku
Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima

Kant
Ibaraki Tochigi Gunma Saitama Chiba Tokyo Kanagawa

Chbu
Niigata Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Yamanashi Nagano Gifu Shizuoka Aichi

Kansai
Mie Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hygo Nara Wakayama

Chgoku
Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi

Shikoku
Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kchi

Kyushu
Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto ita Miyazaki Kagoshima Okinawa
Coordinates: 36N 138E
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