Chūkyō metropolitan area
# Chūkyō metropolitan area

Chūkyō (中京圏, Chūkyō-ken), or the Chūkyō region (中京地方, Chūkyō-chihō), is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region. The population of 10,110,000 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers. 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 (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), 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 world's 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 of 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

   #### Western Aichi Prefecture（Owari Province）
   * Aisai

   * Ama

   * Chita

   * Handa

   * Ichinomiya

   * Inazawa

   * Inuyama

   * Iwakura

   * Kasugai

   * Komaki

   * Kitanagoya

   * Kiyosu

   * Kōnan

   * Nagakute

   * Nisshin

   * Ōbu

   * Owariasahi

   * Seto

   * Tōkai

   * Tokoname

   * Toyoake

   * Tsushima

   * Yatomi
* Komaki
* Inazawa
* Seto
* Handa
* Tōkai
* Kōnan

   #### Eastern Aichi Prefecture（Mikawa Province）
   * Anjō

   * Chiryū

   * Gamagori

   * Hekinan

   * Kariya

   * Miyoshi

   * Nishio

   * Okazaki

   * Tahara

   * Takahama

   * Toyohashi

   * Toyokawa

   * Toyota
* Toyota
* Okazaki
* Toyohashi
* Toyokawa
* Anjō
* Nishio
* Kariya

### Gifu Prefecture

   * Ena

   * Gifu

   * Hashima

   * Kaizu

   * Kakamigahara

   * Kani

   * Minokamo

   * Mizuho

   * Mizunami

   * Motosu

   * Nakatsugawa

   * Ōgaki

   * Tajimi

   * Toki
* Gifu
* Ōgaki
* Kakamigahara
* Tajimi
* Nakatsugawa

### Mie Prefecture

   * Inabe

   * Kuwana

   * Suzuka

   * Yokkaichi
* Yokkaichi
* Kuwana
* Suzuka
* Inabe

## Transport

### Major airports

* Chūbu Centrair International Airport
* Nagoya Airport

### Major railways

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**

* Chūō Main Line
* Taita Line
* Kansai Main Line
* Takayama Main Line
* Tōkaidō Main Line
* Tōkaidō Shinkansen

**Other operators**

* Aichi Loop Line
* Aonami Line
* Ise Railway
* Jōhoku Line
* Kintetsu
* Linimo
* Meitetsu
* Toyotetsu
* Nagoya Subway
* Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway
* JR Central
* Meitetsu
* Kintetsu
* Toyotetsu
* Nagoya Subway
* Aonami Line
* Linimo
* Ise Line

### Major intercity highways

* Chita-Hanto Expressway
* Chūō Expressway
* Higashi-Meihan Expressway
* Isewangan Expressway
* Meishin Expressway
* Tōkai Ring Expressway
* Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
* Tomei Expressway

## GDP

2014 Chūkyō metropolitan area's GDP per capita (PPP) was US$40,144.

## Demographics

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

