Okayama岡山市
Okayama-shi. The name ends in 市 (shi), the word for city.
Okayama (岡山市, Okayama-shi) is a city and a designated city with 4 wards in Okayama Prefecture. Population 724,691 (2020 census), area 789.95 km². Borders 10 places.
An ordinance-designated city (政令指定都市 / seirei shitei toshi). Designated status lets a city take over services a prefecture would normally provide, and requires it to be divided into administrative wards. The wards are offices of the city, not governments of their own.
The city is one municipality. Its wards are internal divisions: voters in every ward elect the same mayor.
Facts
- Japanese name
- 岡山市
- Reading
- Okayama-shi
- Kind
- City (市), designated city (政令指定都市): a local government
- Prefecture
- Okayama 岡山県
- Region
- Chūgoku 中国
- Population
- 724,691 (2020 census)
- Change since 2015
- +0.7% from 719,474
- Area
- 789.95 km²
- Density
- 917 people per km²
- Households
- 327,620
- Under 15
- 12.8%
- 65 and over
- 26.1%
- Foreign residents
- 13,650 (1.9%)
- Code
- 33100 (団体コード, the municipality code)
- Website
- www.city.okayama.jp
- Wikipedia
- English / 日本語
The 4 wards of Okayama行政区
Okayama is a designated city, so it is divided into wards. Each ward has an office for counter services, and none has a mayor or an assembly. Voters in every ward elect the same city mayor.
| Ward | Population | km² |
|---|---|---|
| Kita Ward北区 | 314,523 | 450.7 |
| Naka Ward中区 | 149,232 | 51.24 |
| Higashi Ward東区 | 93,108 | 160.53 |
| Minami Ward南区 | 167,828 | 127.48 |
Neighbouring municipalities
10 places share a land border with Okayama, counted through its wards. Borders across water are not counted.
Questions about Okayama
- Is Okayama a city or a prefecture?
- Okayama (岡山市) is a city (市, shi) in Okayama Prefecture. It is a municipality, the lower of Japan's two tiers of local government, and elects its own mayor and assembly. It is a designated city, divided into 4 wards. The wards are offices of the city, not governments. Okayama Prefecture (岡山県) is the larger unit around it. On its own, the name usually means the city.
- Where is Okayama?
- Okayama is in Okayama Prefecture (岡山県), in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The prefecture is a government; the region is a customary grouping of prefectures and elects nothing.
- What is the population of Okayama?
- 724,691 at the 2020 census, up 0.7% from 719,474 in 2015. The area is 789.95 km², which is 917 people per km². 327,620 households. 26.1% of residents are 65 or older and 12.8% are under 15.
- Which municipalities border Okayama?
- 10: Kurashiki City (倉敷市), Tamano City (玉野市), Soja City (総社市), Bizen City (備前市), Setochi City (瀬戸内市), Akaiwa City (赤磐市), Hayashima Town (早島町), Kumenan Town (久米南町), Misaki Town (美咲町), and Kibichuo Town (吉備中央町). These are the municipalities that share a land border with Okayama in the boundary data. Borders across water are not counted.
- How is Okayama written in Japanese?
- 岡山市, read Okayama-shi. The last character, 市 (shi), is the word for city, and the name is often used without it in English.
- How does an address in Okayama begin?
- 岡山県岡山市… (Okayama-ken, Okayama-shi, …). The prefecture name is written first, then the city name. Then the name of one of the 4 wards. After that are written the named area, the chōme, the block, and the building number.
Boundaries and neighbours: MLIT 国土数値情報. Population, households, and age groups: 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). Website and Wikipedia links: Wikidata.