It reads いきし — Iki 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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Iki is a city on the island of Iki, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of November 2022, the city has an estimated population of 25,042 and a population density of 202 persons per km2. The total area is 138.57 km2.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Iki.
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壱岐市 is read いきし (Iki 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.
Iki has a population of 24,873 across 139 km², making it the 808th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Iki are Genkai Cho (35 km), Karatsu Shi (42 km), Hirado Shi (44 km).