It reads ねむろし — Nemuro 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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Nemuro is a city and port located in Nemuro Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital city of Nemuro Subprefecture. Much of the city lies on the Nemuro Peninsula. As of February 29, 2012, the city has an estimated population of 29,087, with 12,966 households, and a population density of 56.74 persons per km2. The total area is 512.63 km2 (197.93 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nemuro.
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根室市 is read ねむろし (Nemuro 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.
Nemuro has a population of 24,858 across 506 km², making it the 809th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Nemuro are Betsukai Cho (38 km), Hamanaka Cho (48 km), Shibetsu Cho (52 km).