It reads しべつし — Shibetsu 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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Shibetsu is a city located in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 31 December 2024, the city had an estimated population of 16,400 in 706 households, and a population density of 15 people per km2. The total area of the city is 1,119.22 km2 (432.13 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shibetsu.
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士別市 is read しべつし (Shibetsu 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.
Shibetsu has a population of 18,138 across 1119 km², making it the 916th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 38th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Shibetsu are Minamifurano Cho (14 km), Furano Shi (19 km), Shimukappu Mura (23 km).