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| Capital | Nagoya |
| Region: | Chubu |
| Island: | Honshu |
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Ranked 28th 5,153.81 kmē |
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Ranked 4th 7,130,802 |
| Districts: | 15 |
| MunicipalitiesA municipality or general-purpose district (see also: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessa: | 88 |
| ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 codes for Japan cover 47 prefectures. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code JP for Japan, the second part is two-digit-numeric. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for us: | JP-23 |
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| Pref. FlowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and: | IrisIris is a genus of flowering plants with showy flowers ranging in colour from gold or yellow to white, blue, lavender and purple. Pink and apricot coloured irises have also been bred in some species. The name "Iris" can be applied either to the genus, or (Iris laevigata) |
| Pref. TreeThis article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). oak tree in Denmark A tree can be defined as a large perennial woody plant. Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally: | Hananoki (Acer pycnanthum) |
| Pref. BirdFor other meanings of bird see bird (disambiguation). Many see text Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds in: | Scops OwlStrigidae Tytonidae An owl is any of some 200+ species of solitary nocturnal birds of prey in the order Strigiformes . Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found on all the Ear (Otus scops japonicus) |
Aichi prefecture (愛知県 Aichi-ken) is located in the Chubu region of JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh. The capital is Nagoya.