Call area, name of the district, and
population (general)
- JA1 - Kanto - 39,900,000 (32.0%)
- JA2 - Tokai - 14,410,000 (11.6%)
- JA3 - Kinki - 20,340,000 (16.3%)
- JA4 - Chugoku - 7,770,000 (6.2%)
- JA5 - Shikoku - 4,230,000 (3.4%)
- JA6 - Kyushu - 13,380,000 (10.7%)
- JA7 - Tohoku - 9,870,000 (7.9%)
- JA8 - Hokkaido - 5,680,000 (4.6%)
- JA9 - Hokuriku - 3,130,000 (2.5%)
- JA0 - Shin'etsu - 4,680,000 (3.8%)
- JR6 - Okinawa - 1,280,000 (1.0%)
- JD1 - Ogasawara - n/a (very few)
The figures include not only hams but general population in
1995. JA1 is the most densely populated area. It is amazing nearly one third of
people are there. This tells you how easy to make contacts with some areas (ex.
JA1) and how difficult to do with other area (ex. JA9). One out of three
contacts with JA may be with JA1 station.
Major large cities (population in 1996)
- JA1 - Tokyo (7,817,000),
Yokohama
(3,281,000), Kawasaki (1,179,000), Chiba, Urawa,
Yokosuka
- JA2 - Nagoya (2,084,000), Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Gifu
- JA3 - Osaka (2,482,000), Kobe (1,439,000),
Kyoto (1,390,000), Wakayama, Nara
- JA4 - Hiroshima (1,088,000), Okayama, Fukuyama, Kurashiki,
Shimonoseki
- JA5 - Matsuyama, Takamatsu, Kochi, Tokushima
- JA6 - Fukuoka (1,234,000),
Kita-kyushu
(1,013,000), Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Oita,
Miyazaki
- JA7 - Sendai, Iwaki, Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Morioka,
Yamagata
- JA8 - Sapporo (1,751,000), Asahikawa, Hakodate,
Kushiro
- JA9 - Kanazawa, Toyama, Fukui
- JA0 - Niigata, Nagano
- JR6 - Naha
- JD1 - [no big cities]
Cities populated over a million in
bold.
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