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The Kantō region of , on the eastern side of the main island , is a broad plain dominated by and nearly synonymous with the megalopolis of and its suburbs.
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is the enormous and wealthy capital of , and its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people. As the most populated urban area in the world, is a fascinating and dynamic metropolis that mixes foreign influences, consumer culture and global business along with remnants of the capital of old Japan.

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On the western coast of Tokyo Bay directly south of , is the second largest city in and one of the cities most used to seeing foreigners.

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is a ward in central . Its name means "port", referring to its seaside location, although many areas in the district are quite far from the sea now due to reclamation.

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Metropolis comprises the city of , most of the plain of Kanto, and a chain of islands that extends thousands of kilometers south.

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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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Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the Kantō region of . Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 and third-densest at 3,800 inhabitants per square kilometre.

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Prefecture is in the eastern Kanto region of the main island . has lots of great travel opportunities. It's the bonsai capital of the world, has one of the few remaining "Little Edo" historical towns, and has an entire ancient 34-temple pilgrimage route all within its borders.

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Prefecture, occasionally spelled and always pronounced Gumma, is a prefecture in the Kanto region of . is a rural part of Japan with hot springs, a safari park, and plenty of hiking.

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Prefecture is a prefecture in the Kanto region of . Visit is the prefecture's official multilingual guide site.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the Kantō region of . Prefecture has a population of 2,828,086 and has a geographic area of 6,097.19 square kilometres.

Kanto

Latitude of center
35.6823° or 35° 40′ 56″ north
Longitude of center
139.7532° or 139° 45′ 11″ east
Population
42,600,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3123705041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
1860102
Wiki­data ID
Q132480
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kanto” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kantō streek”
  • Afrikaans: “Kanto”
  • Arabic: “منطقة كانتو”
  • Arabic: “منطقه كانتو”
  • Armenian: “Կանտո”
  • Asturian: “Kantō-chihō”
  • Asturian: “Kantō”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Kantō”
  • Asturian: “関東地方”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanto regionu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanto”
  • Balinese: “Wawengkon Kantō”
  • Basque: “Kanto eskualdea”
  • Basque: “Kantō eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Канто (рэгіён)”
  • Belarusian: “Канто”
  • Belarusian: “рэгіён Канто”
  • Bengali: “কান্তোও অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Kantō”
  • Catalan: “Kanto-chiho”
  • Catalan: “Kantō-chihō”
  • Catalan: “Kanto”
  • Catalan: “Kantō”
  • Catalan: “Kantoo-chihoo”
  • Catalan: “Kantou-chihou”
  • Catalan: “regió de Kantō”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Kantō”
  • Catalan: “関東地方”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی کانتۆ”
  • Chinese: “Kantô tē-hng”
  • Chinese: “关东地方 / 關東地方”
  • Chinese: “关东地方”
  • Chinese: “關八州”
  • Chinese: “關東地區”
  • Chinese: “關東地方”
  • Chinese: “關東廣域圈”
  • Chinese: “關東廣域圏”
  • Croatian: “Kantō”
  • Czech: “Kantó”
  • Czech: “region Kantó”
  • Danish: “Kantō”
  • Dutch: “Kanto”
  • Dutch: “Kantō”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “منطقة كانتو”
  • Esperanto: “Kanto-regiono”
  • Esperanto: “Kanto”
  • Esperanto: “Kantō”
  • Esperanto: “Kantoo”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Kanto”
  • Estonian: “Kantō piirkond”
  • Estonian: “Kantō”
  • Finnish: “Kanto”
  • Finnish: “Kantō”
  • French: “Kanto”
  • French: “Kantô”
  • French: “Kantō”
  • French: “région du Kantō”
  • French: “Région du Kantō”
  • French: “Région Kanto”
  • Galician: “Kanto - 関東地方”
  • Galician: “Kanto”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Kantō”
  • Georgian: “კანტო”
  • German: “Kantō-Ebene”
  • German: “Kanto”
  • German: “Kantō”
  • German: “Kantou”
  • German: “Kwanto”
  • German: “Region Kanto”
  • German: “関東地方”
  • Greek: “Καν’τō”
  • Greek: “Καν’τό”
  • Greek: “Καντō”
  • Greek: “Καντό”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kantō”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kôan-tûng Thi-fông”
  • Hebrew: “קאנטו”
  • Hindi: “कान्तो क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Kantó régió”
  • Hungarian: “Kantó”
  • Icelandic: “Kantō”
  • Iloko: “Kantō”
  • Iloko: “Rehion ti Kantō”
  • Indonesian: “Hamparan Kanto”
  • Indonesian: “Kanto”
  • Indonesian: “Kantō”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Kanto”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Kantō”
  • Irish: “Kantō”
  • Italian: “Kanto”
  • Italian: “Kantō”
  • Italian: “Regione di Kantō”
  • Japanese: “かんとう”
  • Japanese: “かんとうちほう”
  • Japanese: “一都六県”
  • Japanese: “関八州”
  • Japanese: “関東・東京地方”
  • Japanese: “関東人”
  • Japanese: “関東地区”
  • Japanese: “関東地方”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់កាន់តូ”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់ខាន់តូ”
  • Korean: “간또지방”
  • Korean: “간토 광역권”
  • Korean: “간토 지방”
  • Korean: “간토”
  • Korean: “간토지방”
  • Korean: “관동 지방”
  • Korean: “칸토”
  • Latvian: “Kanto reģions”
  • Literary Chinese: “關東地方”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanto regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kantō regionas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kantō”
  • Macedonian: “Канто”
  • Malay: “Kanto”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Kanto”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Kantō”
  • Marathi: “कांतो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Koan-tang tē-hng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Koan-tong tē-hng”
  • Moksha: “Канта”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kantō”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanto”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantō”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantoregionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kantōregionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantoregionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantōregionen”
  • Norwegian: “Kantōregionen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “region de Kantō”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Region de Kantō”
  • Ossetian: “Канто”
  • Pampanga: “Kantō labuad”
  • Persian: “کانتو”
  • Persian: “منطقه کانتو”
  • Persian: “ناحیه کانتو”
  • Polish: “Region Kanto”
  • Polish: “Region Kantō”
  • Portuguese: “Kanto (região)”
  • Portuguese: “Kanto”
  • Portuguese: “Kantō”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Kanto”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Kantō”
  • Portuguese: “Região do Kanto”
  • Portuguese: “Região do Kantō”
  • Quechua: “Kantō suyu”
  • Romanian: “Kantō”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Kanto”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Kantō”
  • Russian: “Канто”
  • Russian: “Район Канто”
  • Russian: “Регион Канто”
  • Sardinian: “Kantō”
  • Scots: “Kantō region”
  • Serbian: “Kanto”
  • Serbian: “Канто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kantō”
  • Sindhi: “ڪانتو ريجن”
  • Sinhala: “කන්තෝ කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ටෝ කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Kantó”
  • Slovenian: “Kanto”
  • Slovenian: “Kantō”
  • Slovenian: “regija Kanto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانتو”
  • Spanish: “Kanto chiho”
  • Spanish: “Kanto chihō”
  • Spanish: “Kantō chihō”
  • Spanish: “Kanto-chiho”
  • Spanish: “Kanto-chihō”
  • Spanish: “Kantō-chihō”
  • Spanish: “Kanto”
  • Spanish: “Kantó”
  • Spanish: “Kantō”
  • Spanish: “Region de Kanto”
  • Spanish: “Region de Kantō”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kanto”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kantō”
  • Sundanese: “Kantō region”
  • Sundanese: “Wewengkon Kantō”
  • Swedish: “Kanto”
  • Swedish: “Kantō”
  • Tagalog: “Kantō region”
  • Tagalog: “Kantō”
  • Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Kantō”
  • Tagalog: “Rehiyong Kantō”
  • Thai: “คันโต”
  • Thai: “ภาคคันโต”
  • Thai: “ภูมิภาคคันโต”
  • Turkish: “Kanto bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kantō Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Kanto”
  • Turkish: “Kantō”
  • Ukrainian: “Канто”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Канто”
  • Urdu: “کانتو علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kanto viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanto”
  • Vietnamese: “Kantō”
  • Vietnamese: “Quan Đông địa phương”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Kanto”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Kantō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kantō”
  • Welsh: “Kantō”
  • Western Panjabi: “کینٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “关东地方”
  • Yue Chinese: “關東地方”
  • “Kantō”
  • “Kantō-chihō”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kanto”. Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.