Type in the number of the location
[qsm quiz=50] Prefectures (provinces) of Japan
The words "ken", "-to", "–do", "–fu" get removed from the end of each prefecture’s name when being translated in English. Except for Hokkaido.
e.g Saitama-ken = Saaitama prefecture, Tokyo-to = Tokyo prefecture, Kyoto-fu = Kyoto Prefecture
One thing to be aware of is that some cities* (*-shi in Japanese) are the same as its prefecture. For example, Saitama-shi (city) in Saitama-ken (prefecture).
Depicted on the map are Japan's main islands, from north to south: Hokkaido (北海道), Honshu (本州), Shikoku (四国), and Kyushu (九州).
GeologyTectonic plates
When you look at a map of Japan, you can see the Japanese archipelago is the result of subducting tectonic plates over several hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian (443.8 Mya) to the Pleistocene (11,700 years ago). Over the past 450 million years, about 15,000 km (9,300 mi) of oceanic floor has moved beneath the Japanese archipelago, where most of it subducted completely. The Japanese archipelago now forms a mature island arc (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare).
Tectonic plate movements created the Japanese islandsTohoku (the upper h
