Yokohama (jpn)

Yokohama

Yokohama ranks 104th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind The Hague, Zürich, and Split, Croatia. Memorable people born in Yokohama include Masaru Emoto, Antonio Inoki, and Setsuko Hara. Memorable people who died in Yokohama include Diana Abgar, Chishū Ryū, and Tadao Onishi. Yokohama has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many actors, and singers. Yokohama is located in Japan.

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country's most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone. Read more on Wikipedia