It reads すずし — Suzu 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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Suzu is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 13,531 in 6013 households, and a population density of 54.6 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 247.20 square kilometres (95.44 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Suzu.
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珠洲市 is read すずし (Suzu Shi). It is a city in Ishikawa Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Suzu has a population of 12,879 across 247 km², making it the 1057th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Suzu are Noto Cho (18 km), Wajima Shi (32 km), Anamizu Machi (40 km).