It reads たいないし — Tainai 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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Tainai is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 28,495 in 10,821 households, and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 264.89 square kilometres (102.27 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tainai.
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胎内市 is read たいないし (Tainai Shi). It is a city in Niigata Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Tainai has a population of 28,004 across 265 km², making it the 758th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Tainai are Sekikawa Mura (13 km), Shibata Shi (14 km), Seiro Machi (16 km).