It reads すながわし — Sunagawa 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. Sunagawa is marked in red.
Sunagawa is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Sunagawa.
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砂川市 is read すながわし (Sunagawa 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.
Sunagawa has a population of 16,513 across 79 km², making it the 946th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 40th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Sunagawa are Shintotsukawa Cho (5 km), Takikawa Shi (6 km), Kamisunagawa Cho (7 km).