It reads もんべつし — Monbetsu 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Monbetsu is marked in red.
Monbetsu is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan; on the Sea of Okhotsk. The name comes from Ainu Mopet, Ainu "-pet" would be interpreted "-betsu" in Japanese as well of other city names in Hokkaido.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Monbetsu.
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紋別市 is read もんべつし (Monbetsu 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.
Monbetsu has a population of 21,317 across 831 km², making it the 860th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Monbetsu are Okoppe Cho (23 km), Yubetsu Cho (25 km), Takinoue Cho (29 km).