It reads ちなちょう — China Cho. 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. China is marked in red.
China is a town located on Okinoerabujima, in Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from China.
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知名町 is read ちなちょう (China Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
China has a population of 5,686 across 53 km², making it the 1319th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to China are Wadomari Cho (9 km), Yoron Cho (39 km), Isen Cho (50 km).