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Tokyo, formally Tokyo Metropolis, 47 prefectures Japan. Located eastern island Honshu, Tokyo unique among prefectures, providing certain municipal services characteristic city, defined y Japanese .

Because Japanese government Imperial Palace, Japanese Imperial Family, Tokyo facto capital Japan. T Tokyo literally means eastern capital.

T twenty-three special wards Tokyo, although administratively y right, constitute informally considered "city Tokyo" collectively largest cities world total population 8 million people. T total population prefecture exceeds 12 million.

T Greater Tokyo Area, centered Tokyo including Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, populous metropolitan world population 35 million people. I world's populous urban since between 1965 1970, despite Japan's overall declining population, still growing.

Tokyo largest metropolitan gross domestic product world y.

Tokyo major global y megacity. T "Tokyo" refers variously Tokyo Metropolis ( prefecture) whole, y urban under jurisdiction ( excluding T I Ogasawara Islands), whole Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo parts Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Yamanashi prefectures, depending context.

T article refer Tokyo Metropolis unless otherwise stated.