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Would it be よんじゅうかこくor start with しじゅう?

If anyone cares, the sentence was 俺は全世界四十ヵ国に支店を持つ、大企業の社長だった。 I was the
president of a large corporation with branches in forty countries around the
world.

It appeared in the following volume: Author:青山章二 (Aoyama Shōji), title: びん
("Bottle") in 星新一 (Shin'ichi Hoshi, editor) ショートショートの広場 (Shōto shōto no
hiroba) ISBN-13 : 978-4061835559, page 192
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What is the reading of 四十ヵ国
As a rule of thumb, 四 can only be read as し when it directly precedes a
counter--if there are intervening numbers, it's よん. So 40, 400, etc., nearly
always use よん. There are rare exceptions for numbers in the forty range, as
described [here](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/counting-in-japanese/), but
since your question isn't about an archaic set phrase, it's going to be よん.
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