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Jokes aside, it's fascinating as a Brit to think that the greater area of one city would take up most of Wales. I can't imagine living that far away from central Tokyo and still being in greater Tokyo.
Tokyo is massive, but the outline in the image is really the region of Kantō, with several cities and rural areas. It's like saying greater London is the whole of the south east
I have heard that about a third of Japan's population is in Tokyo. Is that the very broad definition?
Japan in total is about 125 million people.
Tokyo itself is only about 14 million; greater Tokyo is about 40 million.
Tokyo has about 9 mil people. However the biggest 5 cities account for about 20 mil people, which is about 16% of the population. In comparison, the top 5 cities in the US have about 0.6% of the population.
Almost everyone lives in Tokyo or cities west of it. Apart from Sapporo and Sendai, the biggest city north of Tokyo has 500,000 people (and even that's only about 100 km to the north).