Chiba

Chiba Prefecture is located directly east of , and bordered by Prefecture to the north. A large part of the prefecture is made up of the Bōsō Peninsula, which shields Tokyo bay from the Pacific Ocean.
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is the largest city in prefecture, . Practically speaking, it can be considered a large suburb of .

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, originally known as New Tokyo International Airport, is an international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area. It is located approximately 60 kilometers east of central in .

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is a city in Chiba, . Halfway between and , is best known for horse racing and shopping. Few tourists come to as a destination, but it's a handy base for .

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is a city in Chiba prefecture, . It is locally known as "Little Shibuya" due to the shopping.

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is a city in Chiba prefecture, , some 70 kilometers to the northeast of . The vast majority of 's visitors come there for one reason only: , Tokyo's international gateway.

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is a city in western Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2024, the city had an estimated population of 492,749 in 256,229 households and a population density of 8577 persons per km2.

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is located east of , in the northwestern part of Chiba prefecture. It has about 400,000 inhabitants.

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is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 131,183 in 62,193 households and a population density of 3000 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 43.19 square kilometres.

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is a city in Chiba Prefecture, . The city is home to . Right next to , it's a good commuter town.

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is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2020, the city had an estimated population of 175,292 in 81,985 households and a population density of 8400 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 20.97 square kilometres…

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is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 136,023 in 63,431 households and a population density of 980 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 138.95 square kilometres.

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is a city in the Chiba prefecture known for its large history museum and yearly tulip festival. Due to its train connections, it serves as a bedroom community for Chiba, Tokyo and Narita Airport.

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is a city located in the northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 154,114 in 69,191 households and a population density of 1500 persons per km2.

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is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 68,769 in 32,118 households and a population density of 920 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 74.87 square kilometres.

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in Chiba, , was the first Disney theme park resort to open outside of the United States. It is the second most annually-visited theme park complex in the world, behind .

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is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2020, the city had an estimated population of 16,872 in 8566 households and a population density of 180 persons per km2.

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Chōshi is a city in Chiba Prefecture. Its fishery port is one of the largest in Japan in terms of amount of fish caught.

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is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2020, the city had an estimated population of 50,321 in 22,397 households and a population density of 340 inhabitants per square kilometre.

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is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2020, the city had an estimated population of 74,469 in 31,113 households and a population density of 280 persons per km2.

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is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020, the town had an estimated population of 7,122 in 3030 households and a population density of 160 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 43.47 square kilometres.

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The Bōsō Peninsula and its main city Tateyama are the southernmost part of Chiba prefecture. Rarely visited by tourists and somewhat off the radar even for locals, it mostly attracts residents who want to go to the beach.

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is a fishing town on the Pacific coast of Chiba prefecture, and a popular spot with surfers and holiday beachgoers.

Chiba

  • Type: prefecture of Japan with 6,280,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture of Japan
  • Also known as: “Chiba (prefeutura)”, “Chiba (Xapón)”, “Chiba Japon”, “Chiba Japón”, “Chiba län”, “Chiba Prefecture”, “Chiba prefektörlüğü”, “Chiba prefektūra”, “Chiba-koān”, “Chiba-kōan”, “Ćiba”, “Čiba prefektūra”, “Ĉiba-ken”, “Čiba-ken”, “JP-12”, “Prefectura ti Chiba”, “Prefecture of Chiba”, “Prefektura Ćiba”, “Prepektura ng Tsiba”, “Prepekturang Chiba”, “Prepekturang Tsiba”, “Thiên Diệp huyện”, “Tiba Koān”, “Tiba-kōan”, “Tibas prefektūra”, “Префектураи Тиба”, “Тыба (прэфектура)”, “Чіба”, “چىبا”, “จังหวัดจิบะ”, “អាណាខេត្ត ឈីបា”, “천엽 현”, “천엽현”, “치바 현”, “치바현”, and “ちばけん”
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
35.6051° or 35° 36′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
140.1233° or 140° 7′ 24″ east
Population
6,280,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2113014
Wiki­data ID
Q80011
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Chiba” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Chiba”
  • Afrikaans: “Chiba Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Chiba-prefektuur”
  • Amharic: “ቺባ”
  • Arabic: “تشيبا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة تشيبا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura de Chiba”
  • Armenian: “Թիբա”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura de Chiba”
  • Asturian: “Prefeutura de Chiba”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çiba prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Chiba”
  • Bashkir: “Тиба (префектура)”
  • Bashkir: “Тиба”
  • Basque: “Chiba”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Тыба”
  • Belarusian: “прэфэктура Тыба”
  • Belarusian: “Тыба”
  • Bengali: “চিবা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Чиба”
  • Burmese: “ချိဘခရိုင်”
  • Catalan: “prefectura de Chiba”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Chiba”
  • Cebuano: “Chiba-ken”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای چیبا”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیبا”
  • Chechen: “Тиба (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Тиба”
  • Chinese: “千叶县”
  • Chinese: “千葉縣”
  • Croatian: “Chiba”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Čiba”
  • Danish: “Chiba-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Chiba”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉiba”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Chiba”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Ĉiba”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Ĉiba”
  • Estonian: “Chiba prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Chiban prefektuuri”
  • French: “Chiba”
  • French: “préfecture de Chiba”
  • French: “Préfecture de Chiba”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Chiba”
  • Georgian: “ტიბის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Chiba”
  • German: “Präfektur Chiba”
  • Greek: “Νομός Τσίμπα”
  • Gujarati: “ચિબા પ્રીફેકચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chiba-yen”
  • Hausa: “Chiba”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יבה”
  • Hindi: “शिबा प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Csiba prefektúra”
  • Iloko: “Chiba”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Chiba”
  • Indonesian: “Chiba”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Chiba”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Chiba”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Chiba”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Chiba”
  • Japanese: “千葉”
  • Japanese: “千葉県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Chiba”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Chiba”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಬಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಬಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Chiba”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តឈីបា”
  • Kirghiz: “Chiba”
  • Korean: “지바 현”
  • Korean: “지바현”
  • Latin: “Chibaënsis”
  • Latin: “Tiba”
  • Latvian: “Čibas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “千葉縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Čibos prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Чиба”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Chiba”
  • Manipuri: “ꯆꯤꯕꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “चिबा प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “चिबा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chiba-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiba-koān”
  • Mongolian: “Чиба муж”
  • Mongolian: “Чиба-кэн”
  • Nepali: “चिबा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chiba (Prefektüür)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chiba”
  • Northern Sami: “Chiba prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiba prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chiba prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Chiba”
  • Novial: “Chiba Prefekture”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prefectura de Chiba”
  • Oromo: “Chiba”
  • Ossetian: “Тибæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Тибæ”
  • Pampanga: “Chiba Prefecture”
  • Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Chiba”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان چیبا”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Chiba”
  • Portuguese: “Chiba”
  • Pushto: “چيبا”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Chiba”
  • Russian: “Тиба”
  • Scots: “Chiba Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Чиба”
  • Serbian: “Чиба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Chiba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Čiba”
  • Sindhi: “چيبا پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “චිබා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Čiba”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Čiba”
  • Somali: “Chiba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چیبا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Chiba”
  • Sundanese: “Préféktur Chiba”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Chiba”
  • Swedish: “Chiba prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Chiba”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Chiba”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Чиба”
  • Tamil: “சீபா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
  • Tatar: “Тиба (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Тиба”
  • Telugu: “చిబా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดชิบะ”
  • Turkish: “Chiba ili”
  • Turkish: “Chiba”
  • Uighur: “چىبا ناھىيەسى”
  • Ukrainian: “префектура Тіба”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Тіба”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Чіба”
  • Urdu: “چیبا پریفیکچر”
  • Uzbek: “Chiba”
  • Vietnamese: “Chiba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chiba”
  • Welsh: “Chiba”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع چیبا”
  • Wu Chinese: “千叶县”
  • Yue Chinese: “千葉縣”
  • “ma Sipa”

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