It reads かなんちょう — Kanan 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. Kanan is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kanan.
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河南町 is read かなんちょう (Kanan Cho). It is a town in Osaka 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.
Kanan has a population of 15,497 across 25 km², making it the 975th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 36th largest of the 40 in Osaka.
The closest municipalities to Kanan are Chihayaakasaka Mura (2 km), Tondabayashi Shi (2 km), Kawachinagano Shi (5 km).