It reads ちよだまち — Chiyoda Machi. 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Chiyoda.
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千代田町 is read ちよだまち (Chiyoda Machi). It is a town in Gunma 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.
Chiyoda has a population of 10,831 across 22 km², making it the 1113th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Chiyoda are Oizumi Machi (4 km), Ora Machi (5 km), Kumagaya Shi (9 km).