It reads かみし — Kami 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.
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Kami is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 25,562 in 13212 households and a population density of 48 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 537.86 square kilometres (207.67 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kami.
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香美市 is read かみし (Kami Shi). It is a city in Kōchi Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kami has a population of 26,376 across 538 km², making it the 784th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 5th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Kami are Konan Shi (4 km), Nankoku Shi (5 km), Geisei Mura (14 km).