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The prefectures of Japan on the map

One prefecture lights up on the map of Japan: name it. All 47, or one region at a time. Type the name as you'd write it in English (Tokyo, Aomori), type it in kana, or pick the kanji.

Can you name every prefecture on the map?

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HokkaidōTōhokuKantōChūbuKansaiChūgokuShikokuKyūshū & Okinawa

A name counts with or without its ending, and in the usual English spelling: とうきょうと, とうきょう, toukyou or Tokyo. Picking the kanji, the options are the prefectures' own names (青森県, 東京都): the quiz for reading them is Prefectures in kanji.

The map is drawn as Japan holds: the Northern Territories as part of Hokkaidō, Takeshima as part of Shimane (a dot, larger than life so it shows), and the Senkaku Islands as part of Okinawa. Okinawa and the Amami islands are in the box; Tokyo's islands far out in the Pacific (Ogasawara and beyond) aren't shown.

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Hokkaidō 1
北海道
All 47 answers
Prefectures on the map: every word with its reading and meaning
JapaneseReadingMeaningPart
北海道ほっかいどうHokkaidoHokkaidō
青森県あおもりけんAomori PrefectureTōhoku
岩手県いわてけんIwate PrefectureTōhoku
宮城県みやぎけんMiyagi PrefectureTōhoku
秋田県あきたけんAkita PrefectureTōhoku
山形県やまがたけんYamagata PrefectureTōhoku
福島県ふくしまけんFukushima PrefectureTōhoku
茨城県いばらきけんIbaraki PrefectureKantō
栃木県とちぎけんTochigi PrefectureKantō
群馬県ぐんまけんGunma PrefectureKantō
埼玉県さいたまけんSaitama PrefectureKantō
千葉県ちばけんChiba PrefectureKantō
東京都とうきょうとTokyo MetropolisKantō
神奈川県かながわけんKanagawa PrefectureKantō
新潟県にいがたけんNiigata PrefectureChūbu
富山県とやまけんToyama PrefectureChūbu
石川県いしかわけんIshikawa PrefectureChūbu
福井県ふくいけんFukui PrefectureChūbu
山梨県やまなしけんYamanashi PrefectureChūbu
長野県ながのけんNagano PrefectureChūbu
岐阜県ぎふけんGifu PrefectureChūbu
静岡県しずおかけんShizuoka PrefectureChūbu
愛知県あいちけんAichi PrefectureChūbu
三重県みえけんMie PrefectureKansai
滋賀県しがけんShiga PrefectureKansai
京都府きょうとふKyoto PrefectureKansai
大阪府おおさかふOsaka PrefectureKansai
兵庫県ひょうごけんHyōgo PrefectureKansai
奈良県ならけんNara PrefectureKansai
和歌山県わかやまけんWakayama PrefectureKansai
鳥取県とっとりけんTottori PrefectureChūgoku
島根県しまねけんShimane PrefectureChūgoku
岡山県おかやまけんOkayama PrefectureChūgoku
広島県ひろしまけんHiroshima PrefectureChūgoku
山口県やまぐちけんYamaguchi PrefectureChūgoku
徳島県とくしまけんTokushima PrefectureShikoku
香川県かがわけんKagawa PrefectureShikoku
愛媛県えひめけんEhime PrefectureShikoku
高知県こうちけんKōchi PrefectureShikoku
福岡県ふくおかけんFukuoka PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
佐賀県さがけんSaga PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
長崎県ながさきけんNagasaki PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
熊本県くまもとけんKumamoto PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
大分県おおいたけんŌita PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
宮崎県みやざきけんMiyazaki PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
鹿児島県かごしまけんKagoshima PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
沖縄県おきなわけんOkinawa PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa

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Words: JMdict · © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0 · All sources · This page's kanji and word data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Map: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified and drawn as Japan holds.