It reads つしまし — Tsushima 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. Tsushima is marked in red.
Tsushima is an island city grouped in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is the only city of Tsushima Subprefecture and it encompasses all of Tsushima Island, which lies in the Tsushima Strait north of Nagasaki on the western side of Kyushu, the southernmost mainland island of Japan. As of March 2017, the city has an estimated population of 31,550 and a population density of 45 persons per km2. Its total area is 708.61 km2, 17.3% of the area of Nagasaki Prefecture.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tsushima.
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対馬市 is read つしまし (Tsushima Shi). It is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Tsushima has a population of 28,456 across 709 km², making it the 749th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Tsushima are Iki Shi (63 km), Hirado Shi (96 km), Genkai Cho (98 km).