It reads ゆうばりし — Yubari 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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Yūbari is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yubari.
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夕張市 is read ゆうばりし (Yubari 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.
Yubari has a population of 7,430 across 763 km², making it the 1230th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 66th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Yubari are Kuriyama Cho (15 km), Yuni Cho (17 km), Iwamizawa Shi (22 km).