It reads かつやまし — Katsuyama 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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Katsuyama is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2018, the city has an estimated population of 23,527, with 7,973 households, and a population density of 93 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 253.88 square kilometres (98.02 sq mi). Katsuyama was the ninth-best ranking city in a ranking that compared health and sanitation in cities around the world published in April 2007.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Katsuyama.
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勝山市 is read かつやまし (Katsuyama Shi). It is a city in Fukui Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Katsuyama has a population of 22,047 across 254 km², making it the 849th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 8th largest of the 12 in Fukui.
The closest municipalities to Katsuyama are Eiheiji Cho (20 km), Fukui Shi (25 km), Awara Shi (30 km).