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Japan: Country in the North Pacific Ocean, four main islands: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Tokyo is the largest city and the country's capital. Japans's landscape is dominated by mountains. Most people live on the coast and along the rivers. Japan is an important economic power. (electronic goods, cars).
Osaka: One of the largest cities and a major port on Honshu Island. Industrial, Financial and commercial center. Population: 2,500,000.
Kyoto: Former capital of Japan (794 -1868). Many important historical sites. Population: 1,400,000.
Nara: Not far away from Osaka. Famous temples and shrines.

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Summit Names: English translations in this first edition were taken from the GNIS database and corrected with the aid of commercial hiking guides. All of these summits are included on the list of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains, the Nihon Hyaku-Meizan by Kyuya Fukada.

Elevation: Elevations are from Japanese topographic map series 1:25,000, published by the Geographical Survey Institute, in all cases 2000 and later. Because of the high degree of accuracy of these surveys, we felt confident in including the summit elevation to the decimeter (unlike most other national surveys which are presumed to have an uncertainty of one meter or greater.) The reader will note that some of the elevations on this list are several meters higher than widely reported elevations. In several cases, the topographic map shows a second spot elevation (typically along a crater rim) that is higher than the official benchmark. Most elevation tables only list the benchmark elevation.

Saddle: Saddles were derived through SRTM analysis, and confirmed on the 1:25,000 topographic map series. The saddle elevation provided is interpolated from the contour interval of the map; which is 5m in five cases and 10m in nine cases. Thus these prominence figures for the most part have an error bar of ±2.5m and ±5m. The KS for Yotei-zan is a spot elevation of 20m on the perimeter of the Chitose International Airport (for Sapporo). Please note that more than half of the actual key saddles have been significantly altered by earthworks for railroad cuts, highway passes, and canals.

Lat and Long: Are taken from SRTM analysis and should be considered accurate to ± 15 seconds.

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Uruha_Reila I just have one question: Could I post informations about Jpana in romanian?? :-D

yes only if u want a topic new , just one romanian topic and u include there alll about japan