Editing Kyoto (section)

===Administrative divisions===
In the 1870s, the city was divided into a northern ward (Kamigyō-ku) and a southern ward (Shimogyō-ku), each working as individual administrative divisions of Kyoto Prefecture. The modern municipality was created by the unification of these wards into the city of Kyoto in 1889.

Due to the creation of new administrative districts and a number of [[Municipal mergers and dissolutions in Japan|municipal mergers]] that took place between the 1920s and the 1970s, the contemporary city of Kyoto is divided into eleven {{Nihongo|[[Wards of Kyoto|wards]]|区|ku}}. The central wards, located to the west of the Kamo River, are small and densely populated. The city hall is located in [[Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto|Nakagyō-ku]], and the Kyoto prefectural offices are located in present-day [[Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto|Kamigyō-ku]].

{| width="810" class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"
! colspan="7" |Wards of Kyoto
|-
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |Place name
!
!
!
!Map of Kyoto
|-
! style="width: 190px;" |[[Romanization of Japanese|Rōmaji]]
! style="width: 190px;" |[[Kanji]]
!Population<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.city.kyoto.lg.jp/sogo/toukei/Population/Census/2020/#t1|script-title=ja:令和２（２０２０）年国勢調査|publisher=City of Kyoto|access-date=September 5, 2022|archive-date=September 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905065621/https://www2.city.kyoto.lg.jp/sogo/toukei/Population/Census/2020/#t1|url-status=live}}</ref>
!Land area in km<sup>2</sup>
!Pop. density per km<sup>2</sup>
!
|-
|style="text-align: center;"  "width: 20px;" |1
|[[Kita-ku, Kyoto|Kita-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|北区}}
|117,165
|94.88
|1,230
|rowspan="11" |[[File:Kyoto city map.png|alt=|border|center|350x350px|Map of Kyoto's wards]]
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |2
|[[Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto|Kamigyō-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|上京区}}
|83,832
|7.03
|11,900
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |3
|[[Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto|Nakagyō-ku]] (administrative center)
|{{lang|ja|中京区}}
|110,488
|7.41
|14,900
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |4
|[[Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto|Shimogyō-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|下京区}}
|82,784
|6.78
|12,200
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |5
|[[Minami-ku, Kyoto|Minami-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|南区}}
|101,970
|15.81
|6,450
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |6
|[[Nishikyō-ku, Kyoto|Nishikyō-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|西京区}}
|149,837
|59.24
|2,530
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |7
|[[Ukyō-ku, Kyoto|Ukyō-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|右京区}}
|202,047
|292.07
|690
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |8
|[[Sakyō-ku, Kyoto|Sakyō-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|左京区}}
|166,039
|246.77
|670
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |9
|[[Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto|Higashiyama-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|東山区}}
|36,602
|7.48 
|4,890
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |10
|[[Yamashina-ku, Kyoto|Yamashina-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|山科区}}
|135,101
|28.70 
|4,710
|-
|style="text-align: center;" |11
|[[Fushimi-ku, Kyoto|Fushimi-ku]]
|{{lang|ja|伏見区}}
|277,858
|61.66
|4,510
|}