The prefectural capital is Sendai.
Miyagi Prefecture is famous for rice, the Sendai cow, and a strawberry. Especially popular rice is hitomebore, ssanishiki, and manamusume.
The fisheries of Iwate Prefecture are abundant in fish and shellfish. The amount of landing is Japanese top class. A flounder, a sardine, a Pacific saury, a tuna, a bonito, laver, an oyster, wakame seaweed, a scallop, and a sea squirt are famous.
Oil, steel, pulp, an electric machine, non-electrical machinery, and metal are prosperous in industry. Moreover, the paper pulp mill of big Nippon Paper Industries is located in an ishimaki city and an iwanuma city.
A cities, towns and villages list is here.
| Ranking of Miyagi | ||
| Item | National ranking | Outline |
| Area (2009) | The 16st place | 6,862 square kilometers |
| The number of cities, wards, towns, and villages (2010) | The 18st place | 35 cities, towns and villages |
| Population (2008) | The 15th place | 2,334,874 persons |
| Number of households (2008) | The 14th place | 891573 households |
| People-of-the-prefecture gross product (substance) (2007) | The 19th place | 9,044,819 (unit: 1 million yen) |