It reads ひらどし — Hirado 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Hirado is marked in red.
Hirado is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2024, the city had an estimated population of 28,172, and a population density of 120 people per km2. The total area of the city is 235.12 km2 (90.78 sq mi)
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hirado.
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平戸市 is read ひらどし (Hirado 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.
Hirado has a population of 28,822 across 235 km², making it the 741st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Hirado are Matsuura Shi (15 km), Saza Cho (17 km), Sasebo Shi (26 km).