It reads ながいし — Nagai 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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Nagai is a city located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2020, the city had an estimated population of 26,466 in 9940 households, and a population density of 120 people per km². The total area of the city is 214.67 square kilometres (83 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nagai.
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長井市 is read ながいし (Nagai Shi). It is a city in Yamagata Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Nagai has a population of 25,836 across 215 km², making it the 787th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 10th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Nagai are Shirataka Machi (8 km), Iide Machi (10 km), Nan-yo Shi (11 km).