It reads きたみし — Kitami Shi.
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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Kitami is a city in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the most populous city and the commercial center in the subprefecture, although the subprefecture capital is Abashiri.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kitami.
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北見市 is read きたみし (Kitami Shi). It is a city in Hokkaido Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kitami has a population of 115,441 across 1427 km², making it the 223rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Kitami are Tsubetsu Cho (15 km), Kunneppu Cho (16 km), Bihoro Cho (17 km).