Table 8 Region coverage

Regional coverage

Description (the numbers in the parenthesis correspond to regional numbers in the maps)

China

 1. Northeast

Liaoning(6), Jilin(7), Heilongjiang(8)

 2. West

Inner Mongolia(5), Guangxi(20), Chongqing(22), Sichuan(23), Guizhou(24), Yunnan(25), Tibet(26), Shaanxi(27), Gansu(28), Qinghai(29), Ningxia(30), Xinjiang(31)

 3. Center

Shanxi(4), Anhui(12), Jiangxi(14), Henan(16), Hubei(17), Hunan(18)

 4. Coast

Beijing(1), Tianjin(2), Hebei(3), Shanghai(9), Jiangsu(10), Zhejiang(11), Fujian(13), Shandong(15), Guangdong(19), Hainan(21)

Japan

 1. Hokkaido

Hokkaido(1)

 2. Tohoku

Aomori(2), Iwate(3), Miyagi(4), Akita(5), Yamagata(6), Fukushima(7)

 3. Kanto

Ibaraki(8), Tochigi(9), Gunma(10), Saitama(11), Chiba(12), Tokyo(13), Kanagawa(14), Niigata(15), Yamanashi(19), Nagano(20), Shizuoka(22)

 4. Chubu

Toyama(16), Ishikawa(17), Gifu(21), Aichi(23), Mie(24)

 5. Kinki

Fukui(18), Shiga(25), Kyoto(26), Osaka(27), Hyogo(28), Nara(29), Wakayama(30)

 6. Chugoku

Tottori(31), Shimane(32), Okayama(33), Hiroshima(34), Yamaguchi(35)

 7. Shikoku

Tokushima(36), Kagawa(37), Ehime(38), Kochi(39)

 8. Kyushu

Fukuoka(40), Saga(41), Nagasaki(42), Kumamoto(43), Oita(44), Miyazaki(45), Kagoshima(46)

 9.Okinawa

Okinawa(47)