It reads やまがたし — Yamagata 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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Yamagata is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of 1 January 2019, the city had an estimated population of 27,356 in 10,868 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 221.98 square kilometres (85.71 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yamagata.
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山県市 is read やまがたし (Yamagata Shi). It is a city in Gifu Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Yamagata has a population of 25,325 across 222 km², making it the 801st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Yamagata are Gifu Shi (9 km), Motosu Shi (10 km), Kitagata Cho (12 km).