Okinawa沖縄県
Okinawa-ken·おきなわけん·県 (ken), prefecture
A subtropical island chain 600 km south-west of Kyūshū, ruled as the Ryūkyū Kingdom until 1879 and under US administration until 1972.
Facts
- Japanese name
- 沖縄県
- Reading
- Okinawa-ken / おきなわけん
- Region
- Kyūshū-Okinawa 九州・沖縄
- Capital
- Naha 那覇市
- Population
- 1,467,480 (2020 census)
- Area
- 2,283 km²
- Density
- 643 people per km²
- Municipalities
- 41 — 11 cities, 11 towns, and 19 villages
- Designated cities
- None
- Districts (郡)
- 5
- Codes
- JIS 47·ISO 3166-2 JP-47
How an address here begins
沖縄県那覇市…
Okinawa-ken, Naha-shi, …
The prefecture comes first, then the municipality. The guide explains the rest of the address, and the map reads any address you paste into it.
Neighbouring prefectures
Okinawa shares no land border with another prefecture.
Every municipality in Okinawa市区町村
41 local governments, each with its own mayor and assembly. Every one links to its boundary on the map.
Cities市
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.