Prefecture of Japan

Hyogo

兵庫県

Hyogo is a prefecture of Japan. It covers about 8,380 km² (3,240 mi²), the 11th largest of the 47 prefectures in Natural Earth’s file for Japan, and 84% of the size of Lebanon. About 5.5 million people live there (Wikidata, 2021).

In area84%of the size ofLebanon10,000 km² In people1.01×as many people asSlovakia5.4 million

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Hyogo

Facts

Area, measured	8,380 km²3,240 mi²
Official area	8,400 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Japan	2.2%of the area of the 47 prefectures
Rank by area	11th of 47prefectures of Japan
Population	5.5 millionWikidata, 2021
Density	651 people per km²
Capital	Kobe
Latitude range	34°N to 36°N
Type	PrefectureJP-28

What the numbers say about Hyogo

Hyogo covers 2.2% of the area of Japan and ranks 7th of 47 by population, against 11th by area.
It would take 44.6 prefectures the size of Hyogo to cover Japan.
The largest, Hokkaido (Japan), is 9.40× the size of Hyogo; the smallest, Kagawa, is 22% of it.
Closest in size within Japan: Hiroshima (8,300 km², 1.01×) and Kagoshima (8,850 km², 1.06×).
Counted as a country, Hyogo would be larger than 70 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 170th by area, between Puerto Rico (9,010 km²) and French Southern and Antarctic Lands (6,990 km²).
With 5.5 million people it would rank 118th of 238 by population.
Hyogo has 651 people per km², about the density of Mauritius, which has 628 per km².
That makes Hyogo the 9th most densely populated of the 47 prefectures, 1.93× the average for Japan (338 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large in area, so Hyogo looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Hyogo stretches about 165 km north to south and 109 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 8,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,380 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2021. Japan’s units share the 2021 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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What the numbers say about Hyogo

About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

Where Hyogo sits in Japan

Ranked within Japan

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