It reads なよろし — Nayoro 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.
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Nayoro is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 31 January 2025, the city had an estimated population of 24,702, and a population density of 46 people per km2. The total area of the city is 534.861 km2 (206.511 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nayoro.
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名寄市 is read なよろし (Nayoro 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.
Nayoro has a population of 27,062 across 535 km², making it the 775th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Nayoro are Shimokawa Cho (15 km), Bifuka Cho (16 km), Kenbuchi Cho (32 km).