It reads はくいし — Hakui 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.
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Hakui is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2018, the city had an estimated population of 22,052 in 8566 households, and a population density of 270 persons per km². The total area of the city was 81.85 square kilometres (31.60 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hakui.
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羽咋市 is read はくいし (Hakui Shi). It is a city in Ishikawa Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Hakui has a population of 20,031 across 82 km², making it the 876th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Hakui are Hodatsushimizu Cho (5 km), Shika Machi (12 km), Nakanoto Machi (15 km).