It reads かみのくにちょう — Kaminokuni 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kaminokuni.
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上ノ国町 is read かみのくにちょう (Kaminokuni 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.
Kaminokuni has a population of 4,615 across 548 km², making it the 1371st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 97th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Kaminokuni are Assabu Cho (15 km), Otobe Cho (19 km), Kikonai Cho (30 km).