It reads ごとうし — Goto Shi.
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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Gotō is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It comprises the south-west half of the Gotō Islands plus (uninhabited) Danjo and Hizen Torishima archipelagos in the East China Sea. Although the core islands of the city lay some 100 kilometers from Nagasaki, the other archipelagos lay 60 km further to South-West. The city consists of 11 inhabited and 52 uninhabited islands. The three main islands of the city are Fukue, Hisaka, and Naru. As of March 31, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 37,775 and a population density of 90 persons per km2. The total area is 420.81 km2.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Goto.
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五島市 is read ごとうし (Goto Shi). It is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Goto has a population of 34,425 across 420 km², making it the 657th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Goto are Shinkamigoto Cho (38 km), Ojika Cho (57 km), Saikai Shi (80 km).