It reads びばいし — Bibai 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Bibai is marked in red.
Bibai is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Bibai.
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美唄市 is read びばいし (Bibai 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.
Bibai has a population of 20,507 across 278 km², making it the 868th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Bibai are Naie Cho (9 km), Mikasa Shi (10 km), Urausu Cho (10 km).