Kansai
Kansai is the western region of the main Japanese island of Honshu, second only to the Kanto region of Eastern Japan in population. The area is also known as Kinki District, literally "near the capital", and its three big cities - Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe - as Keihanshin.
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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.Kansai
- Region with 22,800,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 271 metres (889 feet)
- Description: region of Japan
- Also known as“Kansai Region”“Kinki Chihō”“Kinki District”“Kinki region”
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Latitude of center
35° north
Longitude of center
135.5° or 135° 30′ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kansai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانسائي”
- Arabic: “كانساي”
- Arabic: “منطقة كانسائي”
- Arabic: “منطقة كانساي”
- Arabic: “منطقة كينكي”
- Arabic: “منطقه كانساي”
- Armenian: “Կինկի”
- Asturian: “Rexón de Kansai”
- Azerbaijani: “Kansay regionu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kansay”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon Kansai”
- Basque: “Kansai eskualdea”
- Basque: “Kinki eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Кансай, рэгіён”
- Belarusian: “Кансай”
- Belarusian: “Кінай”
- Belarusian: “Кінкі”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Кансай”
- Bengali: “কান্সাই অঞ্চল”
- Burmese: “ခန်ဆိုင်းဒေသ”
- Burmese: “ခန်းဆိုင်းဒေသ”
- Catalan: “Kansai”
- Catalan: “Kinki-chihō”
- Catalan: “Kinki”
- Catalan: “Regió de Kansai”
- Catalan: “Regió de Kinki”
- Catalan: “近畿”
- Catalan: “近畿地方”
- Catalan: “関西”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی کانسای”
- Chinese: “近畿”
- Chinese: “近畿圈”
- Chinese: “近畿地區”
- Chinese: “近畿地方”
- Chinese: “近畿廣域圈”
- Chinese: “近畿廣域圏”
- Chinese: “關西”
- Chinese: “關西地方”
- Croatian: “Kansai regija”
- Croatian: “Kansai”
- Czech: “Kansai”
- Czech: “Kinai”
- Czech: “Kinki”
- Danish: “Kansai”
- Dutch: “Kansai”
- Esperanto: “Kansai regiono”
- Esperanto: “Kansai”
- Esperanto: “Kansajo”
- Esperanto: “Kinki regiono”
- Esperanto: “Kinki-regiono”
- Esperanto: “Kinki”
- Estonian: “Kansai”
- Finnish: “Kansai”
- Finnish: “Kinki”
- French: “Kansai”
- French: “Kansaï”
- French: “Kinai”
- French: “Kinaï”
- French: “Kinki”
- French: “région du Kansai”
- French: “Région du Kansai”
- French: “région du Kansaï”
- French: “Région du Kansaï”
- Georgian: “კანსაი”
- German: “Goki”
- German: “Gokinai”
- German: “Kansai”
- German: “Kinai-Ebene”
- German: “Kinai”
- German: “Kinki”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khiûn-ki Thi-fông”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kinki”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קינקי”
- Hebrew: “קנסאי”
- Hindi: “कंसाई क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “कान्साइ क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “किन्की क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Kanszai”
- Icelandic: “Kansai”
- Iloko: “Kansai”
- Iloko: “Rehion ti Kansai”
- Indonesian: “Kansai”
- Indonesian: “Kinki”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Kansai”
- Irish: “Kansai”
- Italian: “Kansai”
- Italian: “Kinai”
- Italian: “Kinki”
- Italian: “Regione di Kinki”
- Japanese: “近畿”
- Japanese: “近畿2府4県”
- Japanese: “近畿圏”
- Japanese: “近畿地方”
- Japanese: “関西”
- Japanese: “関西地区”
- Japanese: “関西地方”
- Javanese: “Kansai”
- Korean: “간사이 지방”
- Korean: “간사이”
- Korean: “관서 지방”
- Korean: “관서지방”
- Korean: “긴끼 지방”
- Korean: “긴끼지방”
- Korean: “긴키 지방”
- Korean: “긴키”
- Korean: “긴키지방”
- Korean: “일본 관서 지방”
- Korean: “일본 관서지방”
- Korean: “칸사이 지방”
- Korean: “칸사이”
- Korean: “칸사이지방”
- Korean: “킨키 지방”
- Korean: “킨키”
- Latvian: “Kansai reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kansai regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kansajaus regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kansajo regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kinki regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kinki”
- Lombard: “Kansai”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kansai”
- Macedonian: “Кансај”
- Malay: “Kansai”
- Malay: “Kawasan Kansai”
- Marathi: “कन्साई”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kīn-ki Tē-hng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kinki tē-hng”
- Mongolian: “Кансай”
- Northern Frisian: “Kansai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kansai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kansairegionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kansai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kansairegionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinkiregionen”
- Norwegian: “Kansairegionen”
- Ossetian: “Кансай”
- Pampanga: “Kansai labuad”
- Persian: “کانسای”
- Persian: “کینکی”
- Persian: “منطقه کانسای”
- Persian: “ناحیه کانسای”
- Persian: “ناحیهٔ کانسای”
- Polish: “Kansai”
- Polish: “Kinki”
- Polish: “region Kinki”
- Polish: “Region Kinki”
- Portuguese: “Kansai”
- Portuguese: “Kinai”
- Portuguese: “Kinki”
- Portuguese: “Região de Kansai”
- Quechua: “Kansai suyu”
- Romanian: “Kansai”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kansai”
- Russian: “Кансай”
- Russian: “Кинай”
- Russian: “Кинки”
- Russian: “Район Кансай”
- Russian: “Район Кинки”
- Russian: “Регион Кансай”
- Russian: “Регион Кинки”
- Sardinian: “Kansai”
- Scots: “Kansai region”
- Scots: “Kansai”
- Serbian: “Kansai”
- Serbian: “Кансаи”
- Serbian: “Кансај”
- Serbian: “Кинки”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kansai”
- Sindhi: “ڪانسائي ريجن”
- Sinhala: “කන්සායි කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Kansai”
- Slovak: “Kinki”
- Slovenian: “Kansai”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانسای بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “Kansai region”
- Spanish: “Kansai”
- Spanish: “Kinai”
- Spanish: “Kinki”
- Spanish: “Region de Kansai”
- Spanish: “región de Kansai”
- Spanish: “Región de Kansai”
- Spanish: “Region de Kinai”
- Spanish: “Región de Kinai”
- Spanish: “Region de Kinki”
- Spanish: “región de Kinki”
- Sundanese: “Kansai”
- Sundanese: “Kinki region”
- Sundanese: “Kinki”
- Sundanese: “Wewengkon Kansai”
- Swedish: “Kansai”
- Swedish: “Kinai”
- Swedish: “Kinki”
- Tagalog: “Kansai region”
- Tagalog: “Kansai”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Kansai”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyong Kansai”
- Thai: “คันไซ”
- Thai: “คิงกิ”
- Thai: “ภาคคันไซ”
- Thai: “ภูมิภาคคันไซ”
- Turkish: “Kansai Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Kansai”
- Ukrainian: “Кансай”
- Ukrainian: “Кінкі”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Кінкі”
- Urdu: “کانسائی علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Cận Kỳ”
- Vietnamese: “Kansai”
- Vietnamese: “Kinki”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Kansai”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Kinki”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kansai”
- Welsh: “Kansai”
- Western Panjabi: “کینسائی”
- Wu Chinese: “近畿地方”
- Yue Chinese: “近畿地方”
- Yue Chinese: “關西地方”
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