It reads ぶんごたかだし — Bungotakada 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.
Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Bungotakada is marked in red.
Bungotakada is a city located in Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. As of 30 November 2023, the city had an estimated population of 21,980 in 11038 households, and a population density of 96 persons per km². The total area of the city is 206.24 km2 (79.63 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Bungotakada.
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豊後高田市 is read ぶんごたかだし (Bungotakada Shi). It is a city in Ōita Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Bungotakada has a population of 21,901 across 206 km², making it the 852nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 18 in Ōita.
The closest municipalities to Bungotakada are Usa Shi (9 km), Kitsuki Shi (22 km), Hiji Machi (22 km).