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OFFICIAL NAME
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Japan (Nihon) |
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GEOGRAPHY
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Four main islands and 3,000 small islands; only 13% of all land can be cultivated |
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AREA
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377,835 sq km / 145,882 sq miles | |
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COMPARATIVE
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Approximately the same size as California | |
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POPULATION
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127,435,000 | |
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CAPITAL
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Tokyo (12.275 million) | |
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LITERACY
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100% (age 15+ and can read and write) | |
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LANGUAGE
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Japanese | |
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RELIGION
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Buddhist/Shinto - 70% Christians - 1% |
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POLITICS
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Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy | |
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INCOME
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Per capita income = US$ 38,160 per year | |
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CURRENCY
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Yen (¥) | |
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CHURCHES
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7,765 Protestant churches | |
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TIME ZONE
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GMT/UTC +9 | |
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CHURCH RATIO
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1 Protestant church for every 16,288 people | |
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MISSIONS
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2,362 missionaries | |
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MISSIONS RATIO
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1 missionary for every 53,285 people | |
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SOURCES
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Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News. |
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