Honshu Island

Honshu

Native name: 本州
Honshu
Honshu
Geography
Location	East Asia
Archipelago	Japanese archipelago
Area	227,962.59 km2 (88,016.85 sq mi)
Area rank	7th
Length	1,300 km (810 mi)
Width	50–230 km (31–143 mi)
Coastline	5,450 km (3,386 mi)
Highest elevation	3,776 m (12,388 ft)
Highest point	Mount Fuji
Administration
Japan
Prefectures	Tōhoku  Akita Prefecture  Aomori Prefecture  Fukushima Prefecture  Iwate Prefecture  Miyagi Prefecture  Yamagata Prefecture Kantō  Chiba Prefecture  Gunma Prefecture  Ibaraki Prefecture  Kanagawa Prefecture  Saitama Prefecture    Tokyo Chūbu  Aichi Prefecture  Fukui Prefecture  Gifu Prefecture  Ishikawa Prefecture  Nagano Prefecture  Niigata Prefecture  Shizuoka Prefecture  Toyama Prefecture  Yamanashi Prefecture Kansai  Hyōgo Prefecture  Kyoto Prefecture  Mie Prefecture  Nara Prefecture  Osaka Prefecture  Shiga Prefecture  Wakayama Prefecture Chūgoku  Hiroshima Prefecture  Okayama Prefecture  Shimane Prefecture  Tottori Prefecture  Yamaguchi Prefecture
Largest settlement	Tokyo (pop. 13,617,445)
Demographics
Population	103,000,000 (2005 Census)
Pop. density	447 /km2 (1,158 /sq mi)
Ethnic groups	Japanese

Honshu (, Honshū^?, "Main Island" or "Main Province") ([hoɴꜜɕɯᵝː]) is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north and west, from the North Pacific Ocean to its south and east. It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java.

Honshu had a population of 103 million as of 2005^[update], mostly concentrated in the coastal lowlands, notably in the Kantō plain where 25% of the total population resides in the Greater Tokyo Area. As the historical center of Japanese culture and political power, the island includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyoto, Nara, and Kamakura. Much of the island's southern shore forms part of the Taiheiyō Belt, a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese islands.

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