The is a
geographical area of
Honshu, the largest island of
Japan. The region includes the
Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven
prefectures:
Gunma,
Tochigi,
Ibaraki,
Saitama,
Tokyo,
Chiba, and
Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly more than 45 percent of the land area is the
Kanto Plain. The rest consists of the hills and mountains that form the land borders. In official census count on October 1, 2010 by the
Japan Statistics Bureau, the population was 42,607,376 amounting to approximately one third of the total population of Japan.
