Osaka (jpn)

Osaka

Osaka ranks 148th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Caracas, Genoa, and Memphis, Tennessee. Memorable people born in Osaka include Yasunari Kawabata, Lee Myung-bak, and Paulo Miki. Memorable people who died in Osaka include Matsuo Bashō, Sanada Yukimura, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Osaka has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Osaka is located in Japan.

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya). It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia