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Kawasaki

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Also known as Kawasaki City

city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan

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Kawasaki is a major industrial city located in Kanagawa prefecture, an area near Tokyo in Japan. It has historically been important as a manufacturing and port hub, contributing significantly to Japan's industrial development and economy.

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Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the eighth most populated city in Japan (including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area).

As of October 1, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 1,503,690, with 716,470 households, and a population density of 10,000 persons per km. Kawasaki is the only city in Japan with more than one million inhabitants that is not a prefectural capital. The total area is 142.70 km (55.10 sq mi).

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