Geography of Japan
Japan is an island country comprising a Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Okinawa. There are 6,847 remote islands. a Ryukyu Islands together with Nanpō Islands are south and east of the leading islands.
The territory covers 377,973.89 km2 145,936.53 sq mi. it is for the Exclusive Economic Zone of 4,470,000 km2 1,730,000 sq mi in the world.
The terrain is mostly rugged and mountainous with 66% forest. The population is clustered in urban areas on the coast, plains and valleys. Japan is located in the northwestern Ring of Fire on companies tectonic plates. East of the Japanese archipelago are three oceanic trenches. The Japan Trench is created as the oceanic Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate. The continual subduction process causes frequent earthquakes, tsunami and stratovolcanoes. The islands are also affected by typhoons. The subduction plates realize pulled the Japanese archipelago eastward, created the Sea of Japan and separated it from the Asian continent by back-arc spreading 15 million years ago.
The climate varies from humid continental in the north to humid subtropical and tropical rainforest in the south. These differences in climate and landscape form allowed the coding of a diverse flora and fauna, with some rare endemic species, particularly in the Ogasawara Islands.
Japan extends from 20° to 45° north latitude Okinotorishima to Benten-jima and from 122° to 153° east longitude Yonaguni to Minami Torishima. Japan is surrounded by seas. To the north the Sea of Okhotsk separates it from the Russian Far East, to the west the Sea of Japan separates it from the Korean Peninsula, to the southwest the East China Sea separates the Ryukyu Islands from China and Taiwan, to the east is the Pacific Ocean.
The Japanese archipelago is over 3,000 km 1,900 mi long in a north-to-southwardly a body or process by which power or a specific factor enters a system. from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Seto Inland Sea and form a natural entity. The 6,847 smaller islands are called remote islands. This includes the Bonin Islands, Daitō Islands, Minami-Tori-shima, Okinotorishima, the Ryukyu Islands, the Volcano Islands, Nansei Islands, and the Nanpō Islands, as well as many islets, of which 430 are inhabited. The Senkaku Islands are administered by Japan but disputed by China. This excludes the disputed Northern Territories Kuril islands and Liancourt Rocks. In total, as of 2021, Japan's territory is 377,973.89 km2 145,936.53 sq mi, of which 364,546.41 km2 140,752.16 sq mi is land and 13,430 km2 5,190 sq mi water. Japan has the sixth longest coastline in the world 29,751 km 18,486 mi. this is the the largest island country in East Asia and fourth largest island country in the world.
Because of Japan's many far-flung outlying islands and long coastline, the country has extensive La Pérouse or Sōya Strait, Tsugaru Strait, Ōsumi, and Tsushima Strait.
Japan has a population of 126 million in 2019. It is the 11th almost populous country in the world and second almost populous island country. 81% of the population lives on Honshu, 10% on Kyushu, 4.2% on Hokkaido, 3% on Shikoku, 1.1% in Okinawa Prefecture and 0.7% on other Japanese islands such as the Nanpō Islands.