Chūkyō metropolitan area

Chūkyō metropolitan area 中京圏
Nagoya
Country	Japan
Prefecture	Aichi
Area
• Metro	7,072 km2 (2,731 sq mi)
Population  (Demographia World Urban Areas 2019 ［http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf])
• Metro	10,110,000 (2,023 Estimates)
• Metro density	1,430/km2 (3,701/sq mi)

Chūkyō (中京圏, Chūkyō-ken), or the Chūkyō region (中京地方, Chūkyō-chihō), is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region. The population of 10,110,000 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers.^[1] Nevertheless, like most of Japan's major metro areas, the core of it lies on a fertile alluvial plain, in this case, the Nōbi Plain.

Nagoya metropolitan area Nagoya MEA
Urban Employment Area
(2015)
Country	Japan
Prefectures	Gifu Prefecture Aichi Prefecture Mie Prefecture
Core cities	Nagoya Komaki Tōkai Handa Kariya Anjō Others
Area (2011)[2]
• Total	2,791.72 km2 (1,077.89 sq mi)
• Inhabitable area	1,902.02 km2 (734.37 sq mi)
Population  (2015)[3]
• Total	6,871,632
• Rank	3rd in Japan
• Density	2,500/km2 (6,400/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)[2]	22.5 trillion Japanese yen (2010)

It is among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the world, and is the third most populous metropolitan area in Japan (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the world's 22nd-largest metro area economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to a study by the Brookings Institution.^[4] The GDP of Greater Nagoya, Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area, was US$256.3 billion in 2010.^[2][5]

The metropolitan area stretches beyond the central city of Nagoya to other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as neighboring Gifu and Mie prefectures.

Western Aichi Prefecture（Owari Province）

• 
  Komaki
• 
  Inazawa
• 
  Seto
• 
  Handa
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  Tōkai
• 
  Kōnan

Eastern Aichi Prefecture（Mikawa Province）

• 
  Toyota
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  Okazaki
• 
  Toyohashi
• 
  Toyokawa
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  Anjō
• 
  Nishio
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  Kariya

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  Gifu
• 
  Ōgaki
• 
  Kakamigahara
• 
  Tajimi
• 
  Nakatsugawa

• Inabe
• Kuwana
• Suzuka
• Yokkaichi

• 
  Yokkaichi
• 
  Kuwana
• 
  Suzuka
• 
  Inabe

• Chūbu Centrair International Airport
• Nagoya Airport

There are at least 38 passenger train lines in the Greater Nagoya area. JR runs six, Nagoya Subway seven, Meitetsu 18, Kintetsu four, and five other operators one each.

JR Central

Other operators

• 
  JR Central
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  Meitetsu
• 
  Kintetsu
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  Toyotetsu
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  Nagoya Subway
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  Aonami Line
• 
  Linimo
• 
  Ise Line

• Chita-Hanto Expressway
• Chūō Expressway
• Higashi-Meihan Expressway
• Isewangan Expressway
• Meishin Expressway
• Tōkai Ring Expressway
• Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
• Tomei Expressway

2014 Chūkyō metropolitan area's GDP per capita (PPP) was US$40,144.^[6]

Per Japanese census data,^[7][8][9] and^{[10][circular reference]} , Chūkyō metropolitan area, also known as greater Nagoya, has had continuous population growth.

• Nagoya
• Greater Nagoya Initiative
• Chūkyō Industrial Area
• Chūkyō Television Broadcasting
• Chukyo University
• List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population

The area defined by the Chukyo Area Person-Trip Survey, a study of commuter movement, is slightly different from the census definition. It includes southern Aichi and areas immediately north of Gifu City. It adds two cities in Aichi Prefecture (Tahara and Toyohashi) and two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Mino and Seki). Additionally, it excludes two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Ena and Nakatsugawa).