It reads おおたけし — Otake 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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Ōtake is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2023, the city had an estimated population of 25,955 in 12884 households and a population density of 330 persons per km². The total area of the city is 78.66 square kilometres (30.37 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Otake.
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大竹市 is read おおたけし (Otake Shi). It is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Otake has a population of 26,458 across 79 km², making it the 782nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Otake are Waki Cho (4 km), Iwakuni Shi (8 km), Hatsukaichi Shi (16 km).