It reads たけたし — Taketa 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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Taketa is a city located in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. As of 3 November 2023, the city had an estimated population of 19,456 in 9838 households, and a population density of 41 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 477.53 km2 (184.38 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taketa.
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竹田市 is read たけたし (Taketa Shi). It is a city in Ōita Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Taketa has a population of 19,688 across 478 km², making it the 884th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 18 in Ōita.
The closest municipalities to Taketa are Ubuyama Mura (17 km), Bungoono Shi (17 km), Yufu Shi (23 km).