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Chugoku, meaning "middle country", is composed of five prefectures : Hiroshima, Okayama, Shimane, Tottori, and Yamaguchi.
It's the home of 7,563,428 Japanese over an area of 31,922.26 km2.
As the characters 中国 and their reading refer to China, the tourism industry used San'in‐San'yō region as an alternative name.