It reads みまし — Mima 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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Mima is a city located in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2022, the city had an estimated population of 27,713 in 12,547 households and a population density of 75 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 367.14 square kilometres (141.75 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mima.
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美馬市 is read みまし (Mima Shi). It is a city in Tokushima Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Mima has a population of 28,087 across 367 km², making it the 756th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 8th largest of the 24 in Tokushima.
The closest municipalities to Mima are Tsurugi Cho (11 km), Awa Shi (13 km), Yoshinogawa Shi (18 km).