It reads ふくおかし — Fukuoka Shi.
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Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. The area has long been considered the gateway to the country, as it is the nearest point among Japan's main islands to the Asian mainland. Although humans occupied the area since the Jomon period, some of the earliest settlers of the Yayoi period arrived in the Fukuoka area. The city rose to prominence during the Yamato period. Because of the cross-cultural exposure, and the relatively great distance from the social and political centers of Kyoto, Osaka, and later, Edo (Tokyo), Fukuoka gained a distinctive local culture and dialect that has persisted to the present.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Fukuoka.
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福岡市 is read ふくおかし (Fukuoka Shi). It is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Fukuoka has a population of 1,603,043 across 340030000 km², making it the 5th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 1st largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Fukuoka are Shime Machi (6 km), Kasuya Machi (6 km), Sue Machi (9 km).