It reads あしべつし — Ashibetsu 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.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Ashibetsu is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ashibetsu.
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芦別市 is read あしべつし (Ashibetsu 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.
Ashibetsu has a population of 12,775 across 865 km², making it the 1059th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 45th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Ashibetsu are Akabira Shi (11 km), Utashinai Shi (12 km), Kamisunagawa Cho (18 km).