Back জাপানের পৌরসভা Bengali/Bangla Municipis del Japó Catalan Gemeinde (Japan) German Municipoj de Japanio Esperanto Municipios de Japón Spanish شهرداریهای ژاپن Persian Municipalité (Japon) French Munisipalitas (Jepang) ID Dagiti ili ti Hapon ILO Municipalità del Giappone Italian
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Municipalities are a level of administration in Japan. The country has three levels of governments: national, prefectural, and municipal.
The nation is divided into 47 prefectures (within these, one metropolis, one regional prefecture, and two urban prefectures). Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total as of January 2014.[1]
There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns, villages and special wards of Tokyo (ku). In Japanese, this system is known as shikuchōson (市区町村), where each kanji in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. In Tokyo, because the wards are at the center, the system is officially referred to as kushichōson (区市町村), with the wards first, and cities second.[2][3][4]
Some designated cities also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards, but, unlike the special wards of Tokyo, these wards are not municipalities.
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