It reads うたしないし — Utashinai 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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Utashinai is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is Japan's smallest city by population.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Utashinai.
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歌志内市 is read うたしないし (Utashinai Shi). It is a city in Hokkaido Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Utashinai has a population of 3,019 across 56 km², making it the 1465th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 125th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Utashinai are Akabira Shi (4 km), Kamisunagawa Cho (8 km), Takikawa Shi (10 km).