page_title: Keihanshin
section_title: GDP (purchasing power parity) 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Keihanshin / Economy / GDP (purchasing power parity) 2015
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Osaka Umeda sky-building. The Original one was taken by Suisui on 2005/02/05 with V602SH. And the image was rotated as the building to be vertical by J o.
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: Compared with other urban regions of the world, the agglomeration of Osaka-Kobe is the ninth largest economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at  purchasing power parity (PPP), in 2015 according to a study by the Brookings Institution.
caption: Umeda Sky Building
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