54 places
Sumo recruits from all over Japan and, since the 1960s, from abroad. Places with at least four wrestlers in this database have a page.
| Place | Wrestlers |
|---|---|
| Tokyo-to | 90 |
| Hokkaido | 83 |
| Aomori | 70 |
| Osaka-fu | 57 |
| Hyogo | 53 |
| Mongolia | 49 |
| Fukuoka | 49 |
| Aichi | 47 |
| Chiba | 47 |
| Saitama | 47 |
| Kumamoto | 45 |
| Kagoshima | 42 |
| Kanagawa | 39 |
| Ibaraki | 33 |
| Akita | 33 |
| Ishikawa | 25 |
| Nagasaki | 24 |
| Niigata | 23 |
| Shizuoka | 23 |
| Gifu | 22 |
| Mie | 21 |
| Fukushima | 21 |
| Iwate | 20 |
| Yamagata | 18 |
| Oita | 17 |
| Kochi | 17 |
| Ehime | 17 |
| Miyagi | 16 |
| Saga | 15 |
| Tochigi | 15 |
| Okinawa | 15 |
| Hiroshima | 14 |
| Yamaguchi | 13 |
| Toyama | 13 |
| Kagawa | 13 |
| Shimane | 12 |
| Okayama | 12 |
| Wakayama | 11 |
| Nagano | 10 |
| Gunma | 10 |
| Kyoto-fu | 10 |
| Yamanashi | 9 |
| Miyazaki | 9 |
| U.S.A. | 8 |
| Nara | 7 |
| Tokushima | 7 |
| Shiga | 6 |
| Fukui | 6 |
| Tokyo | 6 |
| Russia | 5 |
| Brazil | 4 |
| China | 4 |
| Fukuoka | 4 |
| Osaka | 4 |