Kyoto (jpn)

Kyoto

Kyoto ranks 81st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dresden, Bologna, and Frankfurt. Memorable people born in Kyoto include Matsuo Bashō, Emperor Meiji, and Murasaki Shikibu. Memorable people who died in Kyoto include Oda Nobunaga, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sei Shōnagon. Kyoto has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers. Kyoto is located in Japan.

Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. As of 2021, the city has a population of 1.45 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Read more on Wikipedia