Urban Employment Area

Urban Employment Area (都市雇用圏, Toshi Koyō-ken?) is a definition of metropolitan areas, defined by the Center for Spatial Information Service, the University of Tokyo. It is different from the official definition of metropolitan areas defined by the Statistics Bureau, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. For the latter scheme, see the List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population article.

The basic principle of UEA is similar to that of the Statistics Bureau definition; a central city and its associated outlying municipalities with certain amounts of commuters. A UEA with at least 50,000 DID (Densely Inhabited District) population is called Metropolitan Employment Area (大都市雇用圏, Dai-toshi Koyō-ken?) or MEA for short in English. A UEA with at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 DID population is called Micropolitan Employment Area (小都市雇用圏, Shō-toshi Koyō-ken?) or McEA for short in English.

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