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(Redirected from Chukyo region) Metropolitan Area based in Nagoya, Japan Place in Aichi, Japan
Chūkyō metropolitan area 中京圏
NagoyaNagoya
Country Japan
PrefectureAichi
Area
 • Metro7,072 km (2,731 sq mi)
Population
 • Metro10,110,000
 • Metro density1,430/km (3,701/sq mi)
GDP
 • MetroJP¥57,460 billion (2021)
US$523 billion (2021)

Chūkyō (中京圏, Chūkyō-ken), or the Chūkyō region (中京地方, Chūkyō-chihō), is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region. The population of 10,110,000 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers. Nevertheless, like most of Japan's major metro areas, the core of it lies on a fertile alluvial plain, in this case, the Nōbi Plain.

Urban Employment Area in Japan
Nagoya metropolitan area Nagoya MEA
Urban Employment Area
(2015)(2015)
CountryJapan
Prefectures
Core cities
Area
 • Total2,791.72 km (1,077.89 sq mi)
 • Inhabitable area1,902.02 km (734.37 sq mi)
Population
 • Total6,871,632
 • Rank3rd in Japan
 • Density2,500/km (6,400/sq mi)

It is among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the world, and is the third most populous metropolitan area in Japan (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the world's 22nd-largest metro area economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. The GDP of Greater Nagoya, Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area, was US$256.3 billion in 2010.

Prefecture Gross prefecture product
(in billion JP¥, 2021) 		Gross prefecture product
(in billion US$, 2021)
 Aichi 40,733 371
 Mie 8,795 80
 Gifu 7,932 72
Chūkyō 57,460 523

Municipalities

The metropolitan area stretches beyond the central city of Nagoya to other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as neighboring Gifu and Mie prefectures.

Aichi Prefecture

Ichinomiya
Kasugai
Western Aichi Prefecture（Owari Province）
Eastern Aichi Prefecture（Mikawa Province）
Toyohashi MEA
Toyota MEA
Okazaki MEA

Gifu Prefecture

Gifu MEA
Ogaki MEA

Mie Prefecture

Yokkaichi MEA

Transport

Chūbu Centrair International Airport
Nagoya Airport
Port of Nagoya
Main article: Transport in Greater Nagoya

Major airports

Major railways

There are at least 38 passenger train lines in the Greater Nagoya area. JR runs six, Nagoya Subway seven, Meitetsu 18, Kintetsu four, and five other operators one each.

JR Central
Other operators

Major intercity highways

Demographics

Per Japanese census data, and , Chūkyō metropolitan area, also known as greater Nagoya, has had continuous population growth.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1950 2,237,000—    
1960 4,297,000+92.1%
1970 6,603,000+53.7%
1980 7,777,000+17.8%
1990 8,407,000+8.1%
2000 8,740,000+4.0%
2010 9,107,414+4.2%
2020 9,552,132+4.9%

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "県内総生産（生産側、実質：連鎖方式）※支出側も同じ－平成27暦年連鎖価格". www.esri.cao.go.jp.
  2. Demographia World Urban Areas 2019
  3. ^ Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu. "Metropolitan Employment Area (MEA) Data". Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  4. Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu. "Urban Employment Area (MEA) Code Table". Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  5. 2014 GLOBAL METRO MONITOR MAP
  6. Conversion rates - Exchange rates - OECD Data
  7. Greater Nagoya
  8. Chūkyō metropolitan area
  9. Statistics Bureau of Japan
  10. List of metropolitan areas in Japan

The area defined by the Chukyo Area Person-Trip Survey, a study of commuter movement, is slightly different from the census definition. It includes southern Aichi and areas immediately north of Gifu City. It adds two cities in Aichi Prefecture (Tahara and Toyohashi) and two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Mino and Seki). Additionally, it excludes two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Ena and Nakatsugawa).

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