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Tokyo is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan.
Located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu,
Tokyo is unique among the prefectures, providing certain municipal services
characteristic of a city, as defined by Japanese law.
Because it is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace,
and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, Tokyo is the de facto capital of Japan.
The name Tokyo literally means eastern capital.
The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, although each administratively
a city in its own right, constitute the area informally considered as the "city of Tokyo"
and are collectively one of the largest cities in the world with a total population
of over 8 million people.
The total population of the prefecture exceeds 12 million.
The Greater Tokyo Area, centered on Tokyo but also including Chiba, Kanagawa,
and Saitama, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population
of over 35 million people.
It has been the world's most populous urban area since between 1965 and 1970,
and despite Japan's overall declining population, is still growing.
Tokyo has the largest metropolitan gross domestic product in the world for a city.
Tokyo is a major global city and megacity.
The name "Tokyo" refers variously to Tokyo Metropolis (the prefecture) as a whole,
or only to the main urban mass under its jurisdiction (thus excluding west Tama and Izu
and Ogasawara Islands), or even the whole of Greater Tokyo Area,
which includes Tokyo and parts of Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki,
and Yamanashi prefectures, depending on context.
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