Originally a fishing village, named Edo, the city became a prominent political center in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents in 2018. As of 2021, the prefecture has an estimated population of 14.04 million.
Tokyo is the political and economic center of the country, as well as the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the national government. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central Pacific coast of Japan's main island of Honshu. Tokyo ( / ˈ t oʊ k i oʊ/ Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō ( listen)), historically known in the West as Tokio and officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( 東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital, the largest city, and the most populous metropolitan area in the Greater Tokyo Area, the Kantō region, and Japan, as well as the most populous metropolitan area in the world and most populous prefecture of Japan.
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