Chūbu region

The Chūbu region中部地方, , Central region, or Central Japan中部日本, is a region in a middle of Honshū, Japan's main island. In a wide, classical definition, it encompasses nine prefectures ken: Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, together with Yamanashi.

It is located directly between the Kantō region as well as the Kansai region and includes the major city of Nagoya as living as Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan coastlines, extensive mountain resorts, and Mount Fuji.

The region is the widest factor of Honshū and the central part is characterized by high, rugged mountains. The Japanese Alps divide the country into the Pacific side, sunny in winter, and the Sea of Japan side, snowy in winter.

Although Mie is part of Kinki/Kansai/Western Japan in traditional geographical regional divisions, Northern Mie is part of the metropolitan area around Nagoya, and Mie is in numerous practical contexts considered to be part of Tōkai/Chūbu/Central Japan. Including Mie, Chūbu had a population of 23,010,276 as of 1 June 2019.

Other definitions

In the ja extends to five prefectures: Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie and the Southern part of Nagano.

In the ja is responsible for six prefectural police forces: Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Gifu, Aichi and Mie.

In local government, the Chūbu area governors' connective 中部圏知事会, Chūbuken chijikai unites the governors of Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano, Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie and Shiga and the mayor of Nagoya City in Aichi.