Chūkyō metropolitan area


Chūkyō, or the Chūkyō region, is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most-urban part of the Tōkai region. The population of 9,552,132 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers. ［http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf]
Nevertheless, like most of Japan's major metro areas, the core of it lies on a fertile alluvial plain, in this case the Nōbi Plain.
It is among the 50 most-populous metropolitan areas in the world and is the third-most-populous metropolitan area in Japan, containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the 22nd-largest metro area economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. The GDP in Greater Nagoya, Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area, is US$256.3 billion in 2010.

Municipalities

The metropolitan area stretches beyond the central city of Nagoya to other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as neighboring Gifu and Mie prefectures.

Aichi Prefecture

Gifu Prefecture

Mie Prefecture

Transport

Major airports

There are at least 38 passenger train lines in the Greater Nagoya area. JR runs six, Nagoya Subway seven, Meitetsu 18, Kintetsu four, and five other operators one each.
;JR Central
;Other operators
2014 Chūkyō metropolitan area's GDP per capita was US$40,144.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,,,, and , Chūkyō metropolitan area, also known as greater Nagoya, has had continuous population growth.