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| official_name = Chiba City | settlement_type= Designated city | image_skyline= Chiba montage.jpg | image_caption= Top: Coastal industrial area, Chiba Folk Museum Middle: Makuhari Messe, Chiba Port Tower, Chiba Marine Stadium Bottom: Skyscrapers of Makuhari on the coast. | region = Kantō | prefecture = Chiba Prefecture | area_km2 = 272.08 | population = 962,624 | density_km2 = 3,540 | population_as_of = 2012 | mayor = Toshihito Kumagai |lat_deg= 35 |lat_min= 36 |lat_sec= |lon_deg= 140 |lon_min= 6 |lon_sec= | tree = Keyaki | flower = Nelumbo nucifera | image_flag = Flag of Chiba, Chiba.svg | city_hall_postal_code = 260-8722 | city_hall_address = 1-1 Chiba-minato, Chūō-ku, Chiba-shi | website = | image_map = Chiba in Chiba Prefecture Ja.svg }} is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about southeast of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government-designated city in 1992. In 2008, its population was about 960,000. Chiba City is one of the Kantō region's primary seaports, and is home to Chiba Port, which handles one of the highest volumes of cargo in the nation. Much of the city is residential, although there are many factories and warehouses along the coast. There are several major urban centers in the city, including Makuhari, a prime waterfront business district in which Makuhari Messe is located, and Central Chiba, in which the prefectural government office and the city hall are located. Chiba is famous for the Chiba Urban Monorail, the longest suspended monorail in the world. Some popular destinations in the city include: Kasori Shellmound, the largest shellmound in the world at , Inage Beach, the first artificial beach in the nation which forms part of the longest artificial beach in Japan, and the Chiba City Zoological Park, popular on account of the standing red panda Futa. ==Etymology== The name of Chiba in the Japanese language is formed from two kanji characters. The first, , means "thousand" and the second, means "leaves". The name first appears as an ancient kuni no miyatsuko, or regional command office, as the .〔(千葉国造（下総） )〕 The name was adopted by a branch of the Taira clan, which moved to the area in present-day Chiba City in the late Heian period. The branch of the Taira adopted the name and became the Chiba clan, which held strong influence over the area of the prefecture until the Azuchi–Momoyama period. The name "Chiba" was chosen for Chiba Prefecture at the time its creation in 1873 by the , an early Meiji-period body of prefectural governors that met to decide the structure of local and regional administration in Japan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chiba, Chiba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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