Osaka
ceety in Osaka Prefectur, Honshū, Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Osaka (Japanese: 大阪, Ōsaka) is a ceety in the Kansai region o Japan's main island o Honshū, the designatit ceety unner the Local Autonomy Law, the caipital ceety o Osaka Prefectur an an' a' the hert o Greater Osaka Aurie. Locatit at the mooth o the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, Osaka is the third lairgest ceety bi population efter Tokyo an Yokohama.
Osaka 大阪 | |
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Designatit ceety | |
大阪市 · Osaka Ceety | |
Nicht view frae Umeda Sky Biggin Dōtonbori an Tsūtenkaku Shitennō-ji, Sumiyoshi taisha an Osaka Castle | |
Location of Osaka in Osaka Prefectur | |
Coordinates: 34°41′38″N 135°30′8″E | |
Kintra | Japan |
Region | Kansai |
Prefectur | Osaka |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Toru Hashimoto in offece syne 19 December 2011 |
Area | |
• Designatit ceety | 223.00 km2 (86.10 sq mi) |
Population (Januar 1, 2012) | |
• Designatit ceety | 2,666,371(3rd) |
• Metro | 18,768,395 (2nt) |
Time zone | UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time) |
- Tree | Sakura |
- Flower | Pansy |
Phone number | 06-6208-8181 |
Address | 1-3-20 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Ōsaka-shi, Ōsaka-fu 530-8201 |
Website | Osaka Official Website |
For reference, Greater Osaka Aurie is the seicont mucklest aurie in Japan bi population an ane o the mucklest metropolitan aurie heichlie ranked in the warld, wi nearly 18 million fowk, an bi GDP, the seicont lairgest aurie in Japan an the seivent lairgest aurie in the warld.
Historically the commercial caipital o Japan, Osaka functions as ane o the command centres for the Japanese economy. The ratio atween daytime an nicht time population is 141%, the heichest in Japan, hiehlichtin its status as an economic centre. Its nichttime population is 2.6 million, the third in the kintra, but in daytime the population surges tae 3.7 million, seicont anerlie efter Tokyo. Osaka haes tradeetionally been referred tae as the "naition's kitchen" (天下の台所, tenka no daidokoro), or the Mecca o gourmet fuid.