Tokyo proper is around 13 million. If you include surrounding areas the population numbers add up to being higher than the 13 mil of course. It would be like including in the population of NYC all the other boroughs like Queens, Staten Island, Long Island, Bronx, and Northern New Jersey etc. Or saying the populations is such and such a number for San Francisco by including the entire Bay area, ie, Oakland, Berkley, Richmond, Sausalito, Marin county etc etc. As of October 2007, the official intercensal estimate showed 12.79 million people in Tokyo with 8.653 million living within Tokyo's 23 wards.[1] During the daytime, the population swells by over 2.5 million as workers and students commute from adjacent areas. This effect is even more pronounced in the three central wards of Chiyoda, Chà «à Â, and Minato, whose collective population as of the 2005 National Census was 326,000 at night, but 2.4 million during the day.[1] The entire prefecture had 12,790,000 residents in October 2007 (8,653,000 in 23 wards), with an increase of over 3 million in the day. Tokyo is at its highest population ever, while that of the 23 wards peak official count was 8,893,094 in the 1965 Census, with the count dipping below 8 million in the 1995 Census.[citation needed] People continue to move back into the core city as land prices have fallen dramatically.[citation needed] As of 2005, the most common foreign nationalities found in Tokyo are Chinese (123,661), Korean (106,697), Filipino (31,077), American (18,848), British (7,696), Brazilian (5,300) and French (3,000).[40] The 1889 Census[citation needed] recorded 1,389,600 people in Tokyo City, Japan's largest city at the time.