Keihanshin
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe, Keihanshin M.M.A., Kinki M.M.A., Kinki Major Metropolitan Area
is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. The entire region has a population () of 19,302,746 over an area of . It is the second-most-populated urban region in Japan (after the Greater Tokyo Area), containing approximately 15% of Japan's population.
Key facts
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- Osaka metropolitan area
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- Osaka MEA
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- Urban Employment Area
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- Keihanshin MMA 2015.png
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- Keihanshin Major Metropolitan Area
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- Country
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- Japan
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- Prefectures
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- 19302746
- Settlement.area_metro_km2
- 13228
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
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- auto
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- GDP
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- Metro
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- JP¥92,464 billion (2022)US$713 billion (2022)
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- Osaka Metropolitan Employment Area 2015.png
- Settlement.imagesize
- 200px
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- (2015)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
32 sectionsContents
- Name
- Definitions
- Major Metropolitan Area
- Range of distance
- Urban Employment Area
- Osaka MEA
- Kyoto MEA
- Kobe MEA
- Himeji MEA
- Wakayama MEA
- Historical demographics of Keihanshin
- Cities
- Core cities
- Other cities within the area
- Additional cities
- Mie Prefecture
- Shiga Prefecture
- Nara Prefecture
- Wakayama Prefecture
- Transportation
- Air
- Rail
- High speed rail
- Commuter rail
- Municipal subway
- Economy
- GDP (purchasing power parity) 2015
- Metropolitan employment areas
- Prefectures
- GDP (nominal) 2014
- See also
- References
is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. The entire region has a population () of 19,302,746 over an area of . It is the second-most-populated urban region in Japan (after the Greater Tokyo Area), containing approximately 15% of Japan's population.
The GDP in Osaka–Kobe is $681 billion as measured by PPP , making it one of the world's most productive regions, a match with Paris and London. MasterCard Worldwide reported that Osaka is the 19th ranking city of the world's leading global cities and has an instrumental role in driving the global economy. If Keihanshin were a country, it would be the 16th-largest economy in the world, with a GDP of nearly $953.9 billion in 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Keihanshin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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