It reads おばまし — Obama 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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Obama is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2018, the city had an estimated population of 29,435 in 12,057 households and a population density of 240 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 233.09 square kilometres (90.00 sq mi). Obama gained publicity in the United States and elsewhere in 2008, as it shares its name with Barack Obama, who ran for, and later became the 44th President of the United States.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Obama.
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小浜市 is read おばまし (Obama Shi). It is a city in Fukui Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Obama has a population of 28,142 across 233 km², making it the 755th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 6th largest of the 12 in Fukui.
The closest municipalities to Obama are Oi Cho (12 km), Takahama Cho (18 km), Takashima Shi (31 km).