It reads きょうとし — Kyoto Shi.
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Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kyoto.
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京都市 is read きょうとし (Kyoto Shi). It is a city in Kyoto Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kyoto has a population of 1,448,964 across 828 km², making it the 8th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 1st largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Kyoto are Otsu Shi (7 km), Muko Shi (9 km), Nagaokakyo Shi (12 km).