Osaka (jpn)

Osaka

Osaka ranks 148th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Caracas, Genoa, and Memphis, Tennessee. Memorable people born in Osaka include Yasunari Kawabata, Lee Myung-bak, and Paulo Miki. Memorable people who died in Osaka include Matsuo Bashō, Kunishige Kamamoto, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Osaka has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Osaka is located in Japan.

Ōsaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It is located in Ōsaka Prefecture, of which it is the capital and most populous city, and is the third most populous city in Japan after Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in 2020, it is the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is in turn the second largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia