It reads こうべし — Kobe Shi.
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Kobe, officially Kobe City , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about 35 km (22 mi) west of Osaka and 70 km (43 mi) southwest of Kyoto.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kobe.
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神戸市 is read こうべし (Kobe Shi). It is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kobe has a population of 1,521,707 across 552230000 km², making it the 7th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 1st largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Kobe are Ashiya Shi (11 km), Nishinomiya Shi (14 km), Akashi Shi (18 km).