Country

Japan

JP
Asia
JPY
.jp

Japan (JP/JPN) is a country in Asia with its capital at Tokyo. It covers about 377,975 km² with a population of roughly 124,000,000, uses the JPY, dials on +81, owns the .jp internet domain and keeps its capital on Asia/Tokyo. It has no land borders.

Identity

Official short nameJapan

CapitalTokyo

ContinentAsia

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2JP

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3JPN

Internet TLD.jp

Calling code+81

Currency codeJPY

Geography

Approximate centre36.2048, 138.2529a representative point, not a calculated centroid

Latitude36.2048° N

Longitude138.2529° E

HemisphereNorthern and Eastern

Area377,975 km²145,937 square miles

Land neighboursNone, it has no land borders

Distance from London9,453 kmto the approximate centre of Japan, not to Tokyo. NNE, bearing 32.5°

Antipode-36.2048, -41.7471the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth

Time

These values depend on today’s date and change daily.

Time zone of the capitalAsia/Tokyothe IANA zone for Tokyo; a large country spans several zones

Standard offsetUTC+09:00

Observes daylight savingNothe offset is the same all year

Offset in JanuaryUTC+09:00

Offset in JulyUTC+09:00

Current offsetUTC+09:00

Local time now10 Sept 2026, 01:23

Hours ahead of UTC9

Population & scale

Population124,000,000≈estimate, 2024 edition. Population figures are latest available national or UN estimates, rounded

Population density328.1 per km²≈

Share of world population1.531%≈against a world population of about 8.1 billion

Area rank in this dataset31 of 59

Population rank in this dataset12 of 59

About this data

Dataset version2024 edition. Population figures are latest available national or UN estimates, rounded

Time zone sourcethe IANA time zone database, via the platform

Last updated2024-01-01

StabilityISO codes, TLDs and calling codes are stable; population and area are estimates that change

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