The Keihanshin industrial region ("keihanshin kōgyō chitai" 京阪神工業地帯) encompasses the Japanese cities of
The term Keihanshin is composed of one character of each of the cities, but in their Sino-Japanese reading: "kei" of Kyōto [京] 都; "han" of Ōsaka 大 [阪] , "shin" of Kōbe [神] 戸.
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