Kawasaki, Kanagawa

Kawasaki 川崎市
Designated city
Kawasaki City
Kawasaki Daishi, Tama River, Lazona Kawasaki Plaza, Musashi-Kosugi area, Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Keihin industrial area
Flag Seal
Location of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture
Kawasaki
Coordinates: 35°31′N 139°42′E / 35.517°N 139.700°E / 35.517; 139.700
Country	Japan
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Kanagawa Prefecture
First official recorded	late 4th century
City Settled	July 1, 1924
Government
• Mayor	Norihiko Fukuda
Area
• Total	143.01 km2 (55.22 sq mi)
Population  (January 1, 2020)
• Total	1,531,646
• Density	11,000/km2 (28,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
- Tree	Camellia
- Flower	Azalea
Phone number	044-200-2111
Address	1 Miyamoto-chō, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210-8577
Website	www.city.kawasaki.jp

Kawasaki^[a], officially the Kawasaki City^[b], is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the eighth most populated city in Japan (including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area).^[1]

As of October 1, 2017^[update], the city has an estimated population of 1,503,690, with 716,470 households,^[1] and a population density of 10,000 persons per km². Kawasaki is the only city in Japan with more than one million inhabitants that is not a prefectural capital. The total area is 142.70 km² (55.10 sq mi).

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