It reads にのへし — Ninohe 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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Ninohe is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2020, the city had an estimated population of 26,344, and a population density of 63 persons per km2 in 11,803 households. The total area of the city is 420.42 square kilometres (162.33 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ninohe.
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二戸市 is read にのへし (Ninohe Shi). It is a city in Iwate Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Ninohe has a population of 25,083 across 420 km², making it the 804th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Ninohe are Ichinohe Machi (8 km), Sannohe Machi (12 km), Kunohe Mura (12 km).