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Japan’s Honshu Island, the largest island in Japan. It means the original land of Japan. It faces Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait to the northeast, Kyushu Island to the southwest across the Kontan and Kanmon Strait, faces Shikoku Island across the Seto Inland Sea to the south, is bounded by the Sea of ??Japan to the west, and the Pacific Ocean to the east.

Honshu, Japan, runs from northeast to southwest, is about 1,500 kilometers long, and is about 300 kilometers at its widest point. The main island covers an area of ??227,000 square kilometers, and the area of ??the subordinate islands is about 230,000 square kilometers, accounting for 61.2% of the country's area. The population accounts for about 80% of the country's population.

Most of the territory is mountainous, with many volcanoes and earthquakes. There are many mountains over 3,000 meters in the central part, and Mount Fuji (3,776 meters above sea level), the highest peak in the country, is located here; there are three series of mountain ranges in the north, running from north to south, with basins and plains in between; the Chugoku Mountains and the Kii Mountains in the southwest run east-west, There are many small basins in the mountains. The plains are small, and the larger ones are the Kanto, Noo, and Osaka plains, all located on the Pacific coast.

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Most of Japan's Honshu has a temperate maritime monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 9.6 to 10.5°C, and annual precipitation of 1,400 mm in the north and 1,700 mm in the southwest. There are plum rains in early summer and typhoons in autumn. The river network is dense and short, and the larger ones include the Negokawa, Shinano River, Kitakami River, etc., which are rich in water resources. Forest area accounts for about 60% of the total area. Minerals are mainly petroleum, copper, zinc, sulfur, iron, etc.

Japan’s Honshu industry is mainly distributed in industrial zones such as Keihin, Hanshin, Chukyo and the Seto Inland Sea on the Pacific coast. Concentrated about 90% of Japan's total national economic output value. Offshore aquaculture and offshore fisheries are also very developed. It is the national modern transportation hub for Shinkansen lines and expressways. Cities with a population of more than one million include Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe and Kawasaki.

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