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Chūbu region

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Chūbu region

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one of 8 regions of Japan in the central island of Honshū

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The Chūbu region is one of eight regions in central Japan, located on the main island of Honshū. It serves as a significant geographical and economic area that connects Japan's eastern and western regions.

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Mount Fuji is the Chūbu region's most famous landmark. Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama in Chūbu Central Nagoya

The Chūbu region (中部地方, Chūbu-chihō), Central region, or Central Japan (中部日本, Chūbu-nihon) is a large and diverse region in the middle of Honshū, Japan's main island. In a wide, classical definition, it encompasses nine prefectures (ken): Aichi, Fukui, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama, and Yamanashi.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chūbu region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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