United Nations member state

Japan

Flag and country information

Flag styles

Flag of Japan
Format

Pixel size applies to PNG. SVG stays sharp at any size.

Original SVG

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Japan is included as a United Nations member state. In UN M49, its subregion is Eastern Asia.

The capital recorded by the World Bank is Tokyo.

The midyear population estimate for 2025 is 123,366,734. Land area for 2023 is 364,569.27 km².

Capital
Tokyo
Population
123,366,734 2025 midyear estimate · World Bank
Land area
364,569.27 km² 2023 · World Bank land area
Currency
Japanese Yen JPY ¥ JP¥
Languages
Japanese
Continent
Asia

Canonical file

Width to height in the file: 3:2

Codes

Alpha-2, alpha-3, and the numeric code are the codes published together in UN M49.

ISO alpha-2
JP
ISO alpha-3
JPN
Numeric code
392
Calling code
+81
Country-code domain
.jp
Subregion
Eastern Asia

Languages

Status labels come from Unicode CLDR. They are not a ranking, and they are not a legal opinion.

Official

  • Japanese ja

Major populated places

  • Tokyo
  • Yokohama
  • Osaka
  • Nagoya
  • Sapporo

Names are the first five GeoNames cities5000 places for this country, ordered by that dataset’s population, after places within 20 km of a larger selected place are left out. This is not an official city ranking, and city populations are not shown.

Time zone

  • Asia/Tokyo

Sources

  • Population: 2025 · World Bank SP.POP.TOTL
  • Land area: 2023 · World Bank AG.LND.TOTL.K2
  • Capital: World Bank
  • Unicode CLDR · IANA · GeoNames · libphonenumber
  • Canonical file: File:Flag of Japan.svg

Dataset retrieved 2026-09-26

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