It reads かもし — Kamo 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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Kamo is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 25,971 in 10,270 households, and a population density of 194 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 133.72 square kilometres (51.63 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kamo.
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加茂市 is read かもし (Kamo Shi). It is a city in Niigata Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kamo has a population of 25 across 134 km², making it the 1611th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Kamo are Tagami Machi (2 km), Sanjo Shi (8 km), Tsubame Shi (14 km).