page_title: Keihanshin
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Keihanshin / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial Photograph of Kansai International Airport at JAPAN in 2007. 日本語: 上空から見た関西国際空港。人工島左側には完成間近の第二滑走路も見える
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.
caption: Kansai International Airport
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