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Urban Employment Area

Urban Employment Area (都市雇用圏, Toshi Koyō-ken) is a definition of metropolitan areas used in Japan, defined by the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry defined 233 areas for the UEAs of Japan.[1] It is different from the definition of metropolitan areas defined in census by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. For the latter scheme, see the List of metropolitan areas in Japan article.

The basic principle of UEA is similar to that of the Statistics Bureau definition; a central city and its associated outlying municipalities with certain numbers of commuters. A UEA with at least 50,000 DID (Densely Inhabited District) population is called Metropolitan Employment Area (大都市雇用圏, Dai-toshi Koyō-ken) or MEA for short in English. A UEA with at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 DID population is called Micropolitan Employment Area (小都市雇用圏, Shō-toshi Koyō-ken) or McEA for short in English.

If a municipality has at least 10,000 DID population, and is not a suburb of any other municipalities, it is defined as a central city.

Even if a municipality is a suburb of another, it can still be defined as a central city. In this case, a municipality must have workers working there more than those living there. It must also have the DID population of at least 10,000, or a third of the population of the central city.

W/L here is jūgyō jōjū jinkōhi (従業常住人口比), the ratio of workers in the area, against the number of workers living in the area.

DID population here is a population of central city. If an area has multiple central cities, only the most populous one among them is counted.

A 2015 population decrease from 2005 is written in red figures.

Metropolitan Employment Area (MEA) is listed on white background. Micropolitan Employment Area (McEA) is listed on yellow background.

capital is numbered with blue background.

Prefectural

1980 ranks include MEA, which was merged with Okayama MEA in 2000. Those under No. 100 are marked as "-".

Kurashiki

Source: Urban Employment Area (UEA) Code Table, "地域経済の将来動向分析に関する調査研究" [A study on the future trend analysis of the regional economy] (in Japanese).


These areas have multiple central cities. Municipal names are as of 2015.


These areas changed their names between 1980 and 2000, as the most populated central cities have changed.

List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population

List of Japanese cities by population

Daily urban system

UEA Urban Employment Area