It reads たけはらし — Takehara 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.
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Takehara is a city located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 April 2023, the city had an estimated population of 23,350 in 12,034 households and a population density of 200 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 118.23 square kilometres (45.65 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Takehara.
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竹原市 is read たけはらし (Takehara 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.
Takehara has a population of 23,631 across 118 km², making it the 826th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Takehara are Osakikamijima Cho (8 km), Mihara Shi (17 km), Higashihiroshima Shi (18 km).