It reads いわないちょう — Iwanai 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. Iwanai is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Iwanai.
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岩内町 is read いわないちょう (Iwanai Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Iwanai has a population of 11,982 across 71 km², making it the 1078th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 47th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Iwanai are Kyowa Cho (8 km), Tomari Mura (9 km), Rankoshi Cho (19 km).