Kyoto (jpn)

Kyoto

Kyoto ranks 92nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind San Diego, Seattle, and Baghdad. Memorable people born in Kyoto include Matsuo Bashō, Emperor Meiji, and Emperor Kōmei. Memorable people who died in Kyoto include Yasuke, Sakamoto Ryōma, and Emperor Ninkō. Kyoto has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Kyoto is located in Japan.

Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe. Read more on Wikipedia