It reads くまのし — Kumano 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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Kumano is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2021, the city had an estimated population of 16,232 in 8,746 households and a population density of 43 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 373.35 square kilometres (144.15 sq mi). Kumano is Yoshino-Kumano National Park's finest international beach resort.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kumano.
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熊野市 is read くまのし (Kumano Shi). It is a city in Mie Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kumano has a population of 15,806 across 373 km², making it the 959th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Kumano are Kitayama Mura (13 km), Shimokitayama Mura (19 km), Kiho Cho (20 km).