Editing Osaka (section)

== Demographics ==
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|1870|271992
|1880|292636
|1890|483609
|1900|881344
|1910|1239373
|1920|1798295
|1925|2135248
|1930|2477959
|1935|3022425
|1940|3300714
|1945|1614632
|1950|2015350
|1955|2547316
|1960|3011563
|1965|3156222
|1970|2980487
|1975|2778987
|1980|2648180
|1985|2636249
|1990|2623801
|1995|2602421
|2000|2598774
|2005|2628811
|2010|2666371
|2015|2691185
|2020|2752024
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Population numbers have been recorded in Osaka since as early as 1873, in the early [[Meiji (era)|Meiji era]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Le Japon à l'exposition universelle de 1878. Géographie et histoire du Japon |author= Japanese Imperial Commission |date=1878 |page=16 |language=fr|location=[[Paris]]|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6210871s}}</ref> According to the census in 2005, there were 2,628,811 residents in Osaka, an increase of 30,037 or 1.2% from 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/NewListE.do?tid=000001007251 |title=2005 Population Census |access-date=February 18, 2009 |publisher=Statistics Bureau, Director-General for Policy Planning (Statistical Standards) and Statistical Research and Training Institute, Japan }}</ref> There were 1,280,325 households with approximately 2.1 persons per household. The population density was 11,836 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great Kantō earthquake]] caused a mass migration to Osaka between 1920 and 1930, and the city became Japan's largest city in 1930 with 2,453,573 people, outnumbering even Tokyo, which had a population of 2,070,913. The population peaked at 3,252,340 in 1940, and had a post-war peak of 3,156,222 in 1965, but has declined since, as the residents moved out to the suburbs.<ref>{{cite book | last = Prasad Karan | first = Pradyumna |author2=Kristin Eileen Stapleton | title = The Japanese City | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | pages = 79–81 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eKdMdyZzjyQC | isbn = 978-0-8131-2035-5 | year = 1997 }}</ref>

There were 144,123 registered foreigners, the two largest groups being Korean (60,110) and Chinese (39,551).<ref>{{Cite web |title=大阪市外国人住民国籍別区別人員数 |url=https://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/shimin/cmsfiles/contents/0000431/431477/202112kubetukokusekibetu.pdf |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=Osaka City |archive-date=May 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531131852/https://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/shimin/cmsfiles/contents/0000431/431477/202112kubetukokusekibetu.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Ikuno-ku, Osaka|Ikuno]], with its Tsuruhashi district, is the home to one of the largest population of Korean residents in Japan, with 20,397 registered [[Zainichi Koreans]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=住民基本台帳人口・外国人人口（令和3年3月末日現在）|url=https://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/ikuno/page/0000427171.html|access-date=2021-09-13|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724193926/https://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/ikuno/page/0000427171.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=JOHNSTON|first=ERIC|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20020629b3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429073450/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20020629b3.html|archive-date=April 29, 2011|title=Tsuruhashi, home of 'exotic' Korea in Osaka|date=June 29, 2002|work=The Japan Times Online|access-date=February 18, 2009|url-status=live|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Karan | first = Pradyumna Prasad |author2=Kristin Eileen Stapleton | title = The Japanese City | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | page = 124 | isbn = 978-0-8131-2035-5 | year = 1997 }}</ref>

=== Dialect ===
{{See also|Kansai dialect}}
The commonly spoken dialect of this area is ''Osaka-ben'', a typical sub-dialect of ''Kansai-ben''. Of the many other particularities that characterize Osaka-ben, examples include using the copula ''ya'' instead of ''da'', and the suffix ''-hen'' instead of ''-nai'' in negative verb forms.