It reads えたじまし — Etajima 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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Etajima is a city located on the island of Etajima in Hiroshima Bay in southwestern Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Etajima.
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江田島市 is read えたじまし (Etajima Shi). It is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Etajima has a population of 21,557 across 101 km², making it the 858th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Etajima are Kure Shi (11 km), Saka Cho (14 km), Kumano Cho (18 km).