Chūkyō metropolitan area
Chūkyō (中京圏, Chūkyō-ken), or the Chūkyō region (中京地方, Chūkyō-chihō), is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region. The population of 10,110,000 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers. Nevertheless, like most of Japan's major metro areas, the core of it lies on a fertile alluvial plain, in this case, the Nōbi Plain.
Nagoya metropolitan area
Nagoya MEA | |
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Urban Employment Area | |
(2015) | |
| Country | Japan |
| Prefectures |
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| Core cities | |
| Area (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,791.72 km2 (1,077.89 sq mi) |
| • Inhabitable area | 1,902.02 km2 (734.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 6,871,632 |
| • Rank | 3rd in Japan |
| • Density | 2,500/km2 (6,400/sq mi) |
| GDP (nominal) | 22.5 trillion Japanese yen (2010) |
Chūkyō metropolitan area
中京圏 | |
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Nagoya | |
Location in Japan | |
| Coordinates: 35°10′N 136°55′E | |
| Country | Japan |
| Prefecture | Aichi |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 7,072 km2 (2,731 sq mi) |
| Population (Demographia World Urban Areas 2019
［http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf]) | |
| • Metro | 10,110,000 (2,023 Estimates) |
| • Metro density | 1,430/km2 (3,701/sq mi) |
It is among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the world, and is the third most populous metropolitan area in Japan (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the world's 22nd-largest metro area economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. The GDP of Greater Nagoya, Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area, was US$256.3 billion in 2010.