NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Subprefectures of Japan

Some Japanese prefectures are divided into branch offices. Called 支庁 (shichō) in Japanese, this word is often translated into English as "subprefecture". Normally area of a subprefecture consists of a few to a dozen of cities, towns, and/or villages. The prefectures of Japan are the countrys 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one metropolis (éƒ½ to), Tokyo; one circuit (é“ dÅ), HokkaidÅ; two urban prefectures (åºœ fu), Osaka and Kyoto; and 43 other prefectures (çœŒ ken). ...

Prefectures containing subprefectures:

There are 14 subprefectures in Hokkaido
There are three subprefecturea in Nagasaki Prefecture.
There are two subprefectures in Okinawa Prefecture.
There are two subprefectures in Kagoshima Prefectures.
There is one subprefecture in Miyazaki Prefecture.
There is one subprefecture in Shimane Prefecture.
There are four subprefectures in Tokyo Prefecture.
There are four subprefectures in Yamagata Prefecture.

Category: Subprefectures of Japan Hokkaido Prefecture have branch offices called 支庁 (shicho) in Japanese, which can be translated in English as subprefectures. ... Nagasaki Prefecture (é•·å´ŽçœŒ; Nagasaki-ken) is located on Kyushu island, Japan. ... Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese æ²–ç¸„çœŒ; Okinawan UchinÄ) is Japans southernmost prefecture, and consists of hundreds of islands known as The RyÅ«kyÅ« Islands or RyÅ«kyÅ«s, in an island chain over 1,000 km long, which extends southwest from KyÅ«shÅ« (the southwesternmost of Japans main four islands) to... Miyazaki Prefecture (Japanese: å®®å´ŽçœŒ; Miyazaki-ken) is located on Kyushu Island, Japan. ... Shimane Prefecture (å³¶æ ¹çœŒ Shimane-ken) is located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō, lit. ... Yamagata Prefecture (å±±å½¢çœŒ; Yamagata-ken) is located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island, Japan. ...

Results from FactBites:

Subprefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (190 words)
	Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province.
	Examples: Tamsui (Danshui) Subprefecture (淡水廳 dan4 shui3 ting1) and Kavalan (Ga'malan) Subprefecture (噶瑪蘭廳 ga2 ma3 lan2) (both in Taiwan).
	See details in Subprefectures of Japan and an example of Kushiro Subprefecture.

Subprefectures of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (84 words)
	Called 支庁 (shichō) in Japanese, this word is often translated into English as "subprefecture".
	Normally area of a subprefecture consists of a few to a dozen of cities, towns, and/or villages.
	There is one subprefecture in Nagasaki Prefecture which is Tsushima subprefecture

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