Miyagi宮城県

Miyagi-ken·みやぎけん· (ken), prefecture

Contains Sendai, the largest city in Tōhoku and a designated city with five wards.

Open Miyagi on the map

Facts

Japanese name
宮城県
Reading
Miyagi-ken / みやぎけん
Region
Tōhoku 東北
Capital
Sendai 仙台市
Population
2,301,996 (2020 census)
Area
7,282 km²
Density
316 people per km²
Municipalities
3514 cities, 20 towns, and 1 villages
Designated cities
Sendai City
Districts (郡)
10
Codes
JIS 04·ISO 3166-2 JP-04

How an address here begins

宮城県仙台市

Miyagi-ken, Sendai-shi, …

The prefecture comes first, then the municipality, then one of Sendai's 5 wards. The guide explains the rest of the address, and the map reads any address you paste into it.

Neighbouring prefectures

Every municipality in Miyagi市区町村

35 local governments, each with its own mayor and assembly. Every one links to its boundary on the map.

Designated city政令指定都市

A designated city is divided into wards. The wards are offices of the city, not governments.

Districts, with their towns and villages郡 · 町 · 村

A district is a name that groups towns and villages in an address. It has no office and no election. The towns and villages are governments.

Boundaries: MLIT 国土数値情報. Population: 2020 Population Census (令和2年国勢調査). Area: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (全国都道府県市区町村別面積調, 2020). Municipality counts are from the boundary data on the map.