Geography of Japan the population lives on Honshu, 10% on Kyushu, 4.2% on Hokkaido, 3% on Shikoku, 1.1% in Okinawa Prefecture and 0.7% on other Japanese islands such as the Nanpō Islands. Nearly 1 in 3 Japanese people live in the Greater Tokyo Area. is the largest island of Japan. It has a population of 104,000,000 with a population density of (2010) . Honshu is roughly long and ranges from wide, and its total area is . This makes it slightly larger than the island of Great Britain . The Greater Tokyo Area on Honshu is the biggest metropolitan area (megacity) in the
Camano Island "snowbirds." The island has a total land area of 102.99 km² (39.77 sq mi), though it was larger before the Great Slide of 1825. During the Last Ice Age the island, sound and land surrounding the sound was covered by a mile thick sheet of ice. As temperatures rose the glacier receding carving the island and leaving behind deposits of glacial till. Camano Island is named for the Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño. The original name of the island was "Kal-lut-chin" which in the language of the indigenous Snohomish tribe means "land jutting into a bay". They used the island as