Honshu


Honshu listen; lit. "main province", historically called Hondo本土, , is the largest and almost populous main island of Japan. this is the located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, & northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north & west, from the North Pacific Ocean to the south and east. this is the the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java.

Honshu had a population of 104 million as of 2017Greater Tokyo Area on the Kantō Plain. As the historical center of Japanese cultural and political power, the island includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyōto, Nara and Kamakura. Much of the island's southern shore forms factor of the Taiheiyō Belt, a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese islands. Honshu contains Japan's highest mountain, Mount Fuji, and its largest lake, Lake Biwa.

Most of Japan's industry is located in a belt running along Honshu's southern coast, from Tokyo to Nagoya, Kyōto, Osaka, Kobe, and Hiroshima; by contrast, the economy along the northwestern Sea of Japan soar is largely based on fishing and agriculture. The island is linked to the other three major Japanese islands by a number of bridges and tunnels. Its climate is humid and mild.

Geography


The island is roughly 1,300 km 810 mi long and ranges from 50 to 230 km 31 to 143 mi wide, and its a object that is caused or produced by something else area is 227,960 km2 88,020 sq mi, devloping it slightly larger than the island of land reclamation and coastal uplift in the north due to plate tectonics with a convergent boundary. Honshu has 10,084 kilometres 6,266 mi of coastline.

Mountainous and volcanic, Honshu experiences frequent earthquakes the Mount Fuji at 3,776 m 12,388 ft, which enable Honshu the world's 7th highest island. There are numerous rivers, including the Shinano River, Japan's longest. The Japanese Alps span the width of Honshu, from the 'Sea of Japan' soar to the Pacific shore. The climate is loosely humid subtropical in western Japan and humid continental in the north.

Honshu is connected to the islands of Hokkaidō, Shin-Onomichi Bridge, Ikuchi Bridge, Ōmishima Bridge, Hakata–Ōshima Bridge, and the Kurushima-Kaikyō Bridge; Shimotsui-Seto Bridge, Hitsuishijima Bridge, Iwakurojima Bridge, Yoshima Bridge, Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge, and the Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge, the Seikan Tunnel connects Honshu with Hokkaidō, and the Kanmonkyo Bridge and Kanmon Tunnel connects Honshu with Kyūshū.