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Kawasaki is a major industrial city located in Kanagawa prefecture, an area near Tokyo in Japan. It has historically been important as a manufacturing and port hub, contributing significantly to Japan's industrial development and economy.
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- Instance of
- satellite city
- Demonym
- 川崎都民
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Kanagawa Prefecture
- Contains
- Miyamae-ku
- Capital
- Kawasaki-ku
- Population
- 1425512
- Area
- 143.01
- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time
- Body of water
- Tokyo Bay
- Shares border with
- Machida
- Official website
- www.city.kawasaki.jp
- Image
- Kawasaki montage.jpg
- Dialing code
- 44
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- twinned administrative body
- Bandung
- topic's main category
- Category:Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- Commons category
- Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- postal code
- 210-0002–210-0865
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kawasaki, Kanagawa
- Commons gallery
- 川崎市
- native label
- 川崎市
- inception
- 1924-07-01
- located in/on physical feature
- Kantō Plain
- official symbol
- Camellia japonica
- social media followers
- 12500
- associated electoral district
- Kanagawa 8th district
- name in kana
- かわさきし
- different from
- Kawasaki
- hashtag
- Kawasaki
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Encyclopedic overview
Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the eighth most populated city in Japan (including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area).
As of October 1, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 1,503,690, with 716,470 households, and a population density of 10,000 persons per km. Kawasaki is the only city in Japan with more than one million inhabitants that is not a prefectural capital. The total area is 142.70 km (55.10 sq mi).
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