Kawasaki, Kanagawa

Kawasaki
川崎市
Kawasaki City
Kawasaki Daishi, Tama River, Lazona Kawasaki Plaza, Musashi-Kosugi area, Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Keihin industrial area
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Location of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture
Location of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture
Kawasaki is located in Japan
Kawasaki
Kawasaki
 
Coordinates: 35°31′N 139°42′E / 35.517°N 139.700°E / 35.517; 139.700
CountryJapan
RegionKantō
PrefectureKanagawa Prefecture
First official recordedlate 4th century
City SettledJuly 1, 1924
Government
 • MayorNorihiko Fukuda
Area
 • Total143.01 km2 (55.22 sq mi)
Population
 (January 1, 2020)
 • Total1,531,646
 • Density11,000/km2 (28,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
- TreeCamellia
- FlowerAzalea
Phone number044-200-2111
Address1 Miyamoto-chō, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210-8577
Websitewww.city.kawasaki.jp Edit this at Wikidata

Kawasaki (川崎市, Kawasaki-shi), [kawasaki] is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the eighth most populated city in Japan (including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area).[1]

As of October 1, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 1,503,690, with 716,470 households,[1] and a population density of 10,000 persons per km2. Kawasaki is the only city in Japan with more than one million inhabitants that is not a prefectural capital. The total area is 142.70 km2 (55.10 sq mi).

  1. ^ a b "Population News of Major Cities". Statistical Information Division, Policy Bureau, City of Yokohama. September 1, 2015. Archived from the original on January 13, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2017.