[JPNS 2209] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 56 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Japanese
• Course: JPNS 2209
• Professor: Yuriko Tanaka

Document Summary

Jpns 2209 - lecture 1 - basic introduction to japan. Coordinates: 20 25 to 45 33 north latitude. The length from the northernmost end to southernmost end is 3,500km. There are four major islands in japan (land altogether = 378,000km : hokkaido - 83,455 km , honshu - 231,095 km , shikoku - 18,789 km , kyushu - 42,176 km . The northernmost island is hokkaido, the southernmost island is okinawa. The ratio comparing japanese land to canadian land is 1:26. 4: japan is smaller than newfoundland. Nihon or nippon: the land of the rising sun. Tokyo: located in the kanto region on the pacific coast of central honshu, size of the area: 2,102km , the population of tokyo is 12,900,000 (measured in 2009, the population density of tokyo is 5,937 persons/km (measured in 2009) The population of japan is 128 million (measured in 2010) tokyo: this is the 10th largest country population in the world.