section_path: Geography
section_name: Geography
paragraph_text: Geography
  
  The city's west side is open to Osaka Bay, and is otherwise completely surrounded by more than ten satellite cities, all of them in Osaka Prefecture, with one exception: the city of Amagasaki, belonging to Hyōgo Prefecture, in the northwest. The city occupies a larger area (about 13%) than any other city or village within Osaka Prefecture. When the city was established in 1889, it occupied roughly the area known today as the Chuo and Nishi wards, only 15.27 square kilometres (6 sq mi) that would eventually grow into today's 222.30 square kilometres (86 sq mi) via incremental expansions, the largest of which was a single 126.01-square-kilometre (49 sq mi) expansion in 1925. Osaka's highest point, located in Tsurumi-ku, is 37.5 metres (123.0 ft) above Tokyo Peil, while the lowest point, in Nishiyodogawa-ku, is −2.2 metres (−7.2 ft) below Tokyo Peil. Osaka is situated at a latitude of 34.67° (near the 35th parallel north), a latitude farther south than Rome (41.90°), Madrid (40.41°), San Francisco (37.77°) and Seoul (37.53°).