Special wards of Tokyo

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Special wards of Tokyo 東京特別区
Coordinates: 35°41′00″N 139°46′00″E / 35.6833°N 139.7667°E / 35.6833; 139.7667
Country	Japan
Island	Honshū
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Tokyo
Area
• 23 special wards	622 km2 (240.1 sq mi)
Population  (January 1, 2009)
• 23 special wards	8,742,995
• Density	14,061/km2 (36,418/sq mi)

Special wards of Tokyo (特別区, tokubetsu-ku) are one of the basic local entities of Japan.^[1] There are 23 municipalities in the core of the capital of Japan.^[2] They are "special wards" because they are different from the wards (区, ku) of other major Japanese cities.^[3]

1. ↑ Web-Japan.org, "Local self-government," p. 1; retrieved 2012-12-19.
2. ↑ Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), "Municipalities within Tokyo" Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-26.
3. ↑ The special wards are not the same as the special cities of Japan.