Tokyo

Japan

Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. The population of the city proper was over 14 million as of 2023. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 33 million residents as of 2025.

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Country: Japan
Population: 35,676,000
Latitude: 35.69° N
Longitude: 139.75° E

Which way is Tokyo from…

From Paris, Tokyo lies at 33° to the north-east, 9,715 km as the crow flies.

Paris	33° north-east	9,715 km
London	32° north-east	9,561 km
New York	333° north-west	10,847 km
Madrid	29° north-east	10,765 km
Rome	40° north-east	9,857 km
Montreal	333° north-west	10,388 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	55° north-east	10,855 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

The classic trap: on a flat map, Tokyo looks due east of London. With a compass, you aim at 32°, north-east, because the shortest route climbs over Scandinavia and Siberia before dropping down to Japan. Same surprise from New York or Montreal: you aim north-west, over Canada and Alaska, not west. A landmark to place it: Tokyo lies on the same latitude as Tehran, and almost the same as Algiers.