Mitaka, Tokyo

Mitaka is a city in the Western Tokyo region of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The local government is styled Mitaka-shi in Japanese. The city is one of the municipalities that make up the western part of the Tokyo Metropolis, and it is a residential community rather than a remote or rural one. According to the figure the source gives for 1 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 190,403 residents, which works out to a density of about 12,000 people per square kilometre across a total area of 16.42 square kilometres. That makes Mitaka a compact and densely settled urban area within the greater Tokyo region, and in the geography atlas it is placed with the cities of Eastern Asia under Japan.