page_title: Keihanshin
section_title: Other cities within the area
hierarchical_section_title: Keihanshin / Cities / Other cities within the area
caption_attribution_description: English: Himeji Castle view from Himeji Station in Himeji, Hyogo prefecture, Japan 日本語: 姫路駅から望む姫路城。所在地は兵庫県姫路市。
context_page_description: Keihanshin is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. The entire region has a population of 19,341,976 over an area of 13,033 km². It is the second-most-populated urban region in Japan, containing approximately 15% of Japan's population.
  The GDP in Osaka-Kobe is $681 billion as measured by PPP as of 2015, making it one of the world's most productive regions, a match with Paris and London. MasterCard Worldwide reported that Osaka is the 19th ranking city of the world's leading global cities and has an instrumental role in driving the global economy. If Keihanshin were a country, it would be the 16th-largest economy in the world, with a GDP of nearly $953.9 billion in 2012.
  The name Keihanshin is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe, but using the Chinese reading instead of the corresponding native reading for each of the characters taken from Osaka and Kobe, and the Kan-on Chinese reading of the character for Kyoto instead of the usual Go-on Chinese reading.
context_section_description: The other cities in Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto and Nara Prefectures include:
  Aioi
  Akashi
  Amagasaki (pop 460,000)
  Ashiya
  Awaji
  Daitō
  Fujiidera
  Gojō
  Gose
  Habikino
  Hannan
  Higashiōsaka (pop 510,000)
  Himeji (pop 540,000)
  Hirakata (pop 410,000)
  Ibaraki
  Ikeda
  Ikoma
  Itami
  Izumi
  Izumiōtsu
  Izumisano
  Jōyō
  Kadoma
  Kaizuka
  Kakogawa
  Kameoka
  Kasai
  Kashiba
  Kashihara
  Kashiwara
  Katano
  Katō
  Katsuragi
  Kawachinagano
  Kawanishi
  Kishiwada
  Kizugawa
  Kyōtanabe
  Matsubara
  Miki
  Minoh
  Moriguchi
  Mukō
  Nagaokakyō
  Nantan
  Nara (pop 370,000)
  Neyagawa
  Nishinomiya (pop 480,000)
  Nishiwaki
  Ono
  Ōsakasayama
  Sakurai
  Sanda
  Sasayama
  Sennan
  Settsu
  Shijōnawate
  Suita (pop 360,000)
  Takaishi
  Takarazuka
  Takasago
  Takatsuki (pop 350,000)
  Tatsuno
  Tenri
  Tondabayashi
  Toyonaka (pop 390,000)
  Uda
  Uji
  Yamatokōriyama
  Yamatotakada
  Yao
  Yawata
caption: Himeji
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