(6) Classification of agriculture area

Terminology	Definition
Classification of agriculture area	Classification of present and former cities, wards, towns, and villages (hereinafter referred to as “municipalities”) based on fundamental conditions (e.g., cultivated, forest and grazing land shares, farmland gradients) that define the structure of regional agriculture
Category	Standard index (fulfills one of the following conditions)
Urban area	- Present and former municipalities where the DID’s share of habitable land is 5% or more with a population density of 500 persons per square kilometer or more or a DID population of 20,000 or more.- Present and former municipalities where the residential area’s share of habitable land is 60% or more with a population density of 500 persons per square kilometer or more.Regions with forest and grazing land’s share of 80% or more are excluded.
Flat farming area	- Present and former municipalities where cultivated land accounts for 20% or more of the total area with forest and grazing land accounting for less than 50% of the total area.However, areas where all paddy fields with gradients of 1/20 or more and all upland fields with gradients of 8° or more account for 90% or more of the total area are excluded.- Present and former municipalities where cultivated land accounts for 20% or more of the total area, with forest and grazing land accounting for 50% or more of the total area and with all paddy fields with gradients of 1/20 or more and all upland fields with gradients of 8° or more accounting for less than 10% of the total area.
Hilly farming area	- Present and former municipalities where cultivated land accounts for less than 20% of the total area, other than urban and mountainous farming areas.- Present and former municipalities where cultivated land accounts for 20% or more of the total area, other than urban and flat farming areas.
Mountainous farming area	- Present and former municipalities where forest and grazing land accounts for 80% or more of the total area, with cultivated land accounting for less than 10% of the total area.
Notes: 1) Order of priority: Urban area → Mountainous farming area → Flat and hilly farming area2) As a rule, DID (Densely Inhabited Districts) are defined as areas where basic district units, as defined by the national census, with populations densities of 4,000 per km² or more are adjacent to each other and the total population of these conjoined districts is 5,000 or more.3) Gradient refers not to the gradient of cultivated land per parcel, but to the main topographical gradient as grouped land.4) The combination of the hilly and mountainous farming area categories is referred to as hilly and mountainous area.5) Former municipalities are those that were classified as of February 1, 1950.

(7) Agricultural regions nationwide

Agricultural region	Prefecture	Agricultural region	Prefecture
Hokkaido	Hokkaido	Kinki	Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama
Tohoku	Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima	Chugoku Sanin Sanyo	Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi
Hokuriku	Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui	Shikoku	Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi
Kanto/Tosan	Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma	Kyushu	Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki,
Northern Kanto	Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo,	Northern Kyushu	Kumamoto, Oita
Southern Kanto	Kanagawa	Southern Kyushu	Miyazaki, Kagoshima
Tosan	Yamanashi, Nagano
Tokai	Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie	Okinawa	Okinawa