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List of records of Japan
Summary
List of records of Japan is an annotated list of Japanese records organised by category.
Extreme points of Japan
The tallest mountain: Mount Fuji, Shizuoka and Yamanashi, 3,776 m.
Mount Niitakayama, the current Jade Mountain (Yùshān), 3,952 m, was once the highest when Taiwan was administrated by Japan.
The lowest mountain: Disputed, candidates include:
Ōgata Fuji, Ōgata, Akita: 3.77 m (Altitude 0 m).
Tenpōzan, Ōsaka, Ōsaka, 4.53 m.
Hiyoriyama, Sendai, Miyagi, 3 m.
The lowest natural mountain: Bentenyama, Tokushima, Tokushima, 6.1 m.
The largest lake: Lake Biwa, Shiga. 670.33 km2.
The largest island: Honshū, 227,945.15 km2.
The largest island, excluding 4 major islands: Okinawa Island, 1,206.49 km2.
Etorofu Island (Iturup), 3,182.65 km2, currently administrated by Russia, is the largest island claimed by Japan.
The largest remote island, without its prefectural capital: Sado Island, Niigata, 854.88 km2.
The smallest island: Okinotorishima, Ogasawara, Tokyo. (The status as an island is disputed by the People's Republic of China.)
The largest uninhabited island: Oshima Ōshima, Hokkaidō, 9.73 km2.
The smallest inhabited island: Warabi Kojima, Gotō, Nagasaki, 0.03 km2, population of 9 people (2005).
The longest river: Shinano River, Niigata, Gunma, and Nagano. 367 km.
The shortest river: Shiokawa River, Okinawa, 300 m.
The narrowest sea strait in the world: Dofuchi Strait, (:ja:土渕海峡), Kagawa, 9.93 m at its narrowest point.
The highest temperature:
Official record: Kumagaya, Saitama 41.1 °C, July 23, 2018.
Unofficial record: Adachi, Tokyo, 42.7 °C, July 20, 2004.
The lowest temperature:
Official record: Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, -41.0 °C, January 25, 1902.
Unofficial record: Bifuka, Hokkaidō, -41.5 °C, January 27, 1931.
The largest earthquake: 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Mj8.4 Mw9.0, March 11, 2011.
The deadliest earthquake: Great Kantō earthquake, 105,385 deaths, September 1, 1923.
The largest prefecture-level entity: Hokkaidō, 83,455 km2.
The smallest prefecture-level entity: Kagawa, 1,862 km2.
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