It reads あかびらし — Akabira Shi. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
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Akabira is a city located in central Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. The name comes from the Ainu language but the meaning is uncertain; possibly it means "mountain ridge" or "cliff".
Measured as real great-circle distance from Akabira.
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赤平市 is read あかびらし (Akabira Shi). It is a city in Hokkaido Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Akabira has a population of 11,105 across 130 km², making it the 1101st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 50th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Akabira are Utashinai Shi (4 km), Takikawa Shi (11 km), Kamisunagawa Cho (11 km).