It reads おばなざわし — Obanazawa 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Obanazawa is marked in red.
Obanazawa is a city located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2020, the city had an estimated population of 15,237, and a population density of 40.9 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 372.32 square kilometres (144 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Obanazawa.
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尾花沢市 is read おばなざわし (Obanazawa 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.
Obanazawa has a population of 14,760 across 373 km², making it the 998th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Obanazawa are Oishida Machi (3 km), Funagata Machi (12 km), Murayama Shi (13 km).