, or the , is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most urbanized part of the Tōkai region. The population is 9,439,000 in 3,704 square kilometers of built-up land area.Demographia World Urban Areas 2019 Nevertheless, like most of Japan's major metro areas, the core of it lies on a fertile alluvial plain, in this case, the Nōbi Plain.
It is among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the world, and is the third most populous metropolitan area in Japan (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the world's 22nd-largest metro area economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to a study by the Brookings Institution.2014 GLOBAL METRO MONITOR MAP The GDP of Greater Nagoya, Nagoya Metropolitan Employment Area, was US$256.3 billion in 2010.Conversion rates - Exchange rates - OECD Data
Prefecture Gross prefecture product(in billion JP¥, 2022) Gross prefecture product(in billion US$, 2022) Chūkyō
Municipalities The metropolitan area stretches beyond the central city of Nagoya to other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as neighboring Gifu and Mie prefectures. Aichi Prefecture
Western Aichi Prefecture（Owari Province）
Aisai Ama Chita Handa Ichinomiya Inazawa Inuyama Iwakura Kasugai Komaki Kitanagoya Kiyosu Kōnan Nagakute Nisshin Ōbu Owariasahi Seto Tōkai Tokoname Toyoake Tsushima Yatomi
Eastern Aichi Prefecture（Mikawa Province）
Anjō Chiryū Gamagori Hekinan Kariya Miyoshi Nishio Okazaki Tahara Takahama Toyohashi Toyokawa Toyota
Gifu Prefecture
Ena Gifu Hashima Kaizu Kakamigahara Kani Minokamo Mizuho Mizunami Motosu Nakatsugawa Ōgaki Tajimi Toki
Mie Prefecture
Inabe Kuwana Suzuka Yokkaichi
Transport
Major airports Chūbu Centrair International Airport Nagoya Airport
Major railways There are at least 38 passenger train lines in the Greater Nagoya area. JR runs six, Nagoya Subway seven, Meitetsu 18, Kintetsu four, and five other operators one each. JR Central
Chūō Main Line Taita Line Kansai Main Line Takayama Main Line Tōkaidō Main Line Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Other operators
Aichi Loop Line Aonami Line Ise Railway Jōhoku Line Kintetsu Linimo Meitetsu Toyotetsu Nagoya Subway Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway
Major intercity highways Chita-Hanto Expressway Chūō Expressway Higashi-Meihan Expressway Isewangan Expressway Meishin Expressway Tōkai Ring Expressway Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway Tomei Expressway
Demographics Per Japanese census data,Greater NagoyaChūkyō metropolitan areaStatistics Bureau of Japan andList of metropolitan areas in Japan , Chūkyō metropolitan area, also known as greater Nagoya, has had continuous population growth.
See also Nagoya Greater Nagoya Initiative Chūkyō Industrial Area Chūkyō Television Broadcasting Chukyo University List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population
Notes
The area defined by the Chukyo Area Person-Trip Survey, a study of commuter movement, is slightly different from the census definition. It includes southern Aichi and areas immediately north of Gifu City. It adds two cities in Aichi Prefecture (Tahara and Toyohashi) and two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Mino and Seki). Additionally, it excludes two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Ena and Nakatsugawa).